AMAZING CRASH
BRAVERY MEDAL AWARDED TO CORPORAL, EXCEPTIONAL COURAGE SHOWN. The Air Force Medal has been awarded to Corporal Thomas Edward Barnes “in recognition of exceptional courage and devotion to duty displayed on the occasion of the forced landing of an aircraft near Hinckley on December 3, 1937.” The machine was being flown from Wyton, Hunts., to Ireland, with a crew consisting of Pilot-Sergeant Smith, Observer-Corporal Barnes and Wire-less-Operatoi' Dearn, when the engine failed in a snowstorm. The plane came out of the snowstorm upside down. The pilot dropped from the machine and escaped by parachute. Barnes took over the controls, and although the plane was falling all the time he managed to get it the right way up. The machine dropped to the ground and was wrecked, but Barnes and Dearn climbed out uninjured from what is described as the most amazing crash in the history of flying.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 7
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