A FATAL CRASH
FAST AEROPLANE WRECKED YOUTHFUL PILOT KILLED MELBOURNE, Feb. 15. While making a solo practice flight at Point Cook Air Force Station a machine, piloted by Flying Cadet Alexander Dix, aged 20, crashed. Dix was badly injured and died en route to hospital. The machine, which was a fighting scout plane and was the fastest in use by the Australian Air Force, was completely wrecked. <
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 7
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67A FATAL CRASH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19768, 16 February 1927, Page 7
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