CANADIAN PILOT KILLED
AIR, FORCE AEROPLANE CRASHES VANCOUVER, June 8. Flying Officer Thomas Fraser, a former member of the Royal Air Force in India, was killed when four Canadian Royal Air Force Hurricane-Hawker aeroplanes proceeding to Calgary from Vancouver ran into fog over the Rocky Mountains. His parachute failed to open when he jumped out 500 ft up as the machine plunged into a meadow. GERMAN AEROPLANE FALLS IN VILLAGE FRANKFURT, June 8. Six men were killed and 100 were injured and 12 houses were set on fire when a military aeroplane crashed in the village of Glenhausen. | The three members of the aeroplane crew were incinerated.
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 7
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