INQUEST ON AIRMEN
KILLED IN COLLISION. FORMAL VERDICT RETURNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. A formal verdict was returned at the inquest into the deaths of Sergeant Pilot Matthew William Coxan, Leading Aircraftmen James Duff Hewitt, Charles William Hildreth Gordon and Keith Claris. The three latter were pilot trainees, who were killed in q collision between two planes over the township of Renwick on the morning of December 31. The evidence followed the usual strictly formal lines. Squadron Leader J. R. S. Agar, the officer commanding the Advanced Training Squadron at Woodbourne, testified that the Authorisation Book showed that the machines took off on training flights, crashing approximately half an hour later. He identified the bodies.
Lieutenant W. H. Reid, the medical officer at Woodbourne, described the men's injuries and said death, in all four cases, had been instantaneous.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 2
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