AMAZING AIR MISHAP
PILOT HURLED TO DEATH PASSENGER LANDS SAFELY. rtress Association Electric Telearanh —Copyright LONDON, Monday. In an amazing mishap at Romford, a twonty-three’-year-old aviator,- a chemist named Douglas Gee, warned his passenger, Claude Oseroft, that he was going into a spin, failed to flatten out and continued upside down. Gee was hurled to death on a railway line. Oseroft, suspended in the air by a seat strap, managed to get his legs around the control stick. The machine miraculously righted and Oseroft made a safe landing.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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