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Fatal R.A.F. Collision in Mid-Air. LONDON, May 1. The occupants of a lonely farmhouse and a few labourers saw yesterday’s air crash, in which Flight-Cadet J. A. Plugge, of Taupiri, New Zealand, was killed. They saw one machine flying towards the south and another towards the west, and then heard a crash like a thunderclap. All the victims, when found, were dead in the aeroplanes, not having had time to utilise their parachutes. The labourers had to dodge the falling fragments. The machines made huge holes in the ground, the engines taking four hours to extricate. Flight-Cadet Plugge was a son of Colonel Arthur Plugge, C.M.G., who served throughout the Great War as O.C. Ist Auckland Battalion and in various other capacities. His name was immortalised on Gallipoli by the naming of Plugge’s Plateau.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20295, 3 May 1934, Page 1
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