PILOTS KILLED
COLLISION WHILE FLYING TANDEM United Press Association—Uectrio Tel egrapb —Copyrtgh t (Received November 24, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 24. During night-flying exercises, two Royal Air Force fighters, flying tandem, collided near Kenley Aerodrome, and crashed. One fell in flames, incinerating the pilot. The parachute belonging to the other pilot was found burnt. The pilot was apparently jumping to safety when he was caught in a tree which tore off a leg, and he was killed. Another Kenley pilot crashed earlier and was found amid the wreckage nursing a broken ankle.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20894, 25 November 1937, Page 7
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