LUNGES TO DEATH
R.A.F. PLANES ENGINE BURIED FORTY FEET IN GROUND. Received June 21, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, June 20. A single-seater Hurricane fightin; • plane crashed during a thunderstorn ■in Sussex and hit the ground at ; speed of 400 miles an lour. The en gine was buried 40 leet in the ground The pilot attempt'd !o use his para i chute, but failed and vas killed. A Royal Air Force sergeant va killed and an officer and an aircrafts man parachuted to safety when ; Fairey Battle bomber which had beei engaged in night exercises caught fin in mid-air and crashed near Netaer hampton early this morning.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 7
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