TRAGEDY IN THE AIR
PLANES collide. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.rri.) NEW YORK, April 4.. Locking wings as they dived towards the scene of the launching of the aircraft carrier Wasp .at Quincy (Massachusetts) two naVal reserve planes crashed killing all four of the crew. The collision occurred at the precise moment when , the .christening bottla broke across the Wasp’s prow. One machine crashed into a house setting it on fire. Windborne fragments of the shattered wings, fell among the horrorstricken crowd massed on river banks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 6
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