AIRMAN KILLED.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17554, 8 November 1928, Page 8

AIRMAN KILLED.

CRASHES IN BRITAIN. : TRAGEDY ON YORKSHIRE MOORS. J MACHINE EMBEDDED IN A BOG. Z '<Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—CopyriarnH " < Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) * (Received November 8, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 7. The bodies of pilot-officer Charles ; Myers and air craftsman Chadwick, ; who have been missing since yesterx 1 day morning, were discovered under * a wrecked plane almost buried in a X bog on a desolate ridge in the York--1 shire Moors. r. Myers, who was aged 20, completJed his flying examination a month '<■ ago, and had only fourteen hours' * actual flying experience. He set out »■ from the Catterick aerodrome to carry * out photographic training, and should have been absent an hour at most. 'When he failed to return aeroplanes searched and scoured the moors,'con-: tinuing with torches and searchlights •• all night. A third air force death occurred at I the flying school in Lincolnshire, when ■'•pHot-officer Richard Coupe crashed in a field. Another aeroplane which '-"Tended" to 'render assistance struck a hedge and overturned. The two occupants were unhurt.