PILOT KILLED
AIR FORCE PLANES COLLIDE. ESCAPE OF DUKE’S SON. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, June 12. Two Royal Air Forces aeroplanes crashed at Upavon, Wiltshire, to-day, as the result of a collision. One was a Bulldog machine piloted by Lord Malcolm Douglas Hamilton, third son of the Duke of Hamilton. He escaped by jumping from the machine with his parachute. The other machine, which was a Horsley, was piloted by Sergeant Frederick O’Meara, who was killed. It'also carried a passenger, Leading Aircraftsman Hagan, who w-as not injured.
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Southland Times, Issue 21109, 14 June 1930, Page 7
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