FATAL CRASH.
LIGHTNING STRIKES ’PLANE OVER CHICAGO. MACHINE BALLS INTO CITY GASOMETER. PILOT AND- TWO GIRLS KILLED. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Sunday, 11.36 p.m.) CHICAGO, August 10. During a thunderstorm over the Chicago airport, a monoplane with three people aboard disappeared behind a black cloud, where evidently it was struck by lightning. It crashed into a municipal gas tank. Divers recovered the dead bodies of the’ pilot and two young nurses in an unrecognisable state.
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Wairarapa Age, 11 August 1930, Page 5
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