AIRPLANE SMASH.
* FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
By Oalle — Press Association — Copyright, Australian end N.Z. GdbU Association.
(\\«e. May 8, 3.45) LONDON, May 2. A big Handley-Page machine left the aerodrome at Andover with seven passengers, practising night-flying. It stopped in mid-air, owing to engine trouble, and crashed to the ground.
Colliding with a shed, the machine overturned and took fire.
Five persons were killed. The victims were pinned under the machine and roasted to death. The survivors were badly burned.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1628, 3 May 1919, Page 11 (Supplement)
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