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AERIAL FATALITY.

A HANDLEY-PAGE MACHINE

CRASHES

FIVE PASSENGERS ROASTED TO

DEATH.

LONDON, May 4. A big Handley-Page machine left the aerodrome at Andover with seven passen ejers, with the object tf practising night-flying. It stopped in mid nir, owing to engine trouble, and crashed to the ground. Colliding with a shed, it overturned, and took fire. Five of the occupants were killed, the victims being pinned under the machine anioroasted to death. The survivors were badly burnt.

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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 7

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AERIAL FATALITY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 7

AERIAL FATALITY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7563, 6 May 1919, Page 7