AIRMAN KILLED AT BLENHEIM
Crashes During Night Flying
! was flying solo during night flying : training, was killed when his machine crashed. The cause of the accident is obscure. Leading Aircraftman Ulenberg was born at Stratford in 1915 and educated at the New Plymouth Boys’ High School. His next of kin was Mrs ' A. T. Ulenberg, New Plymouth. I In the other accident Pilot Officer , Clive Dudley Alfred Highet was severe>ly injured and the other occupant of ' the machine, Leading Aircraftman Thomas Leslie Cowin, was not injured. : This accident occurred during a landing after night flying training. Pilot . Officer Highet’s father is Mr G. C. Highet, of Wellington. A court of inquiry is being held.
TWO MEN OVERDUE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 20. Two airmen of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were reported overdue on a cross-country flight from the R.N.Z.A.F. station at*«Ohakea this evening. They were the djfcupants of an aircraft engaged in a Sight from Ohakea to Opunake and refirn. The overdue airmen are Leading Aircraftman Charles William Baker, son of Mr W. P. Baker, Russell, and Leading Aircraftman Winston Stanley Cannell, son of Mr Percy Cannell, Matamata. An aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force crashed into the bush behind Waikanae during a crosscountry training flight today, but the sole occupant escaped without injury
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Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 6
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