AUSTRALIAN PLANE CRASH
EXPLOSION CAUSED DEATHS MACHINE BROUGHT TO A FORCED LANDING (By Telegraph—Press Ae^ciation—Copyright] Received Aug. 14, 1.15 a.m. CANBERRA, Aug. 13. An eye-witness suggests that the plane made a forced landing without serious damage and an explosion that followed was responsible for the deaths. This view is confirmed by experts, who found the remains of the plane in a compact mass, on the only clear level space on a wooded spur, instead of in scattered fragments, as usually happens when a plane crashes out of control. The machine came to rest against a log 2£ft. thick. Some of those first on the scene are of opinion that if the machine's landing wheels had not met this obstruction the pilot might have made a safe landing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 190, 14 August 1940, Page 6
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