CAMPBELL BLACK’S FATE
TRAGIC SPEKE COLLISION SEEN READING IN PLANE STORY TOLD AT INQUEST (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 29, 12 noon.) LONDON, Sept. 28. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest concerning the flyer, Mr. T. Campbell Elack, who was killed at the Speke aerodrome, Liverpool, on September 19 wfcen a ground collision occurred between the plane lie was to have flown in the race to Africa and a Royal Air Force bomber. The coroner pointed out that an aeroplane about to land had the right of the freeway. The manager of the airport said he was surprised that Mr. Black had not seen the bomber.
Two women testified that as the machine was taxi-nig they saw Air. Black reading what seemed to he a sheet of foolscap. They agreed that it might have been a map which was found in the bottom of the cockpit.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 5
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152CAMPBELL BLACK’S FATE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 5
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