TWO AEROPLANES CRASH, KILLING R.A.F. PILOTS
(United Press Assn.—By Electrn Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, November 25. A collision between two aeroplanes resulting in the death of two pilots occurred when four Air Force machines were returning from a flight to Leuchars aerodrome, near Aberdeen. The leader of the flight, while the three others were flying in arrowhead formation, collided with one of them, when turning, at an altitude of 1000 feet. Both fell headlong three hundred yards apart. One of them immediately burst into flames, incinerating the pilot, Flight-Lieutenant H. W. Howlett. The other pilot, Flight-Lieutenant G. Brookes, was killed outright. The machines were destroyed. This is the fifty-third crash and the sixty-third fatality in the Air Force during 1930.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 1
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