R.A.F. FATALITIES
EIGHT DEAD IN FOUR ACCIDENTS. Received May 11, 5.15 p.m. LONDON, May 10. Four Royal Air Force accidents—a • nose dive at Godmanchester, Hunt- ; ingdonshire, a crash at Hemswell, Lin- 1 coinshire, a crash at Kenly, and the j incineration of a ’plane which toppled i over and ignited while taxi-ing at Wyton—resulted in eight being killed and one injured. Five of those killed belonged to Wyton Station. SIX DEATHS IN FRANCE Received May 11, 5.15 p.m. PARIS, May 10. Six air force deaths are reported. A bomber with a crew of five crashed, and two fighters collided in mid-air, one pilot being killed and ’ the other parachuting to safety.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 110, 12 May 1938, Page 7
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