PILOT SACRIFICES OWN LIFE
HERO’S DEATH IN MANOEUVRES. SWERVED TO AVOID INFANTRY. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyricht. London, Aug. 8. Twelve hundred soldiers of the Royal Fusiliers, ending manoeuvies on the Sussex Downs, witnessed a hero’s death when an air pilot, Sergeant Owen MacNair, aged 25, who had swooped in order to demonstrate machine-gunning of infantry, swerved deliberately and crashed in order to avoid killing adjacent infantrymen whom he could not have otherwise avoided.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 9
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