AIR FORCE DISASTERS
PLANES CRASH IN STORM EIGHT AIRMEN KILLED. CREWS OF TWO MACHINES PARACHUTE TO SAFETY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 7. Though the crews, numbering five in each machine, parachuted to safety when a magnetic storm caused the crash of two R.A.F. bombing planes, a third plane, with five aboard, disappeared today at Dungeness. After reporting the storm and a strong wind, the Air Ministry broadcast an appeal for information. The first plane caught fire while over the sea and crashed near Rye. The second machine crashed at Pontefract. During night flying another R.A.F. machine crashed into the side of Mount Plynlimmon, the three occupants being killed. They were found amid the burning wreckage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1938, Page 7
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