A TERRIBLE SMASH
PLANE HITS WALL Twelve Thousand People See Children Maimed ONE BOY KILLED (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received March 26, 11 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March 26. Some 12,000 spectators were horrified to see an aeroplane crash at Stalybridge (Chershire), killing a boy and seriously injuring five other children.
The ’plane was commissioned to bring the film “What Price Glory” for exhibition at a Stalybridge cinema, and, a large crowd assembled in a field surrounded by an eight feet wall, to witness its arrival. The ’plane, after several attempts to find a safe landing, descended, but was unable to stop before reaching the wall, into which it crashed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20106, 27 March 1928, Page 7
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