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AIR CRASH
Five Men Killed
TRAGEDY AT GLEHBR00K
DEFECTIVE PLANE SUGGESTED
SYDNEY, Wednesday.
Five members of the Royal Australian
Air Force were killed when a bomber
crashed at Glenbrook (7 miles from Pen
rith) at about 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
The victims were: —
Squadron Leader James M. Rainbow,
42. single, of Double Bay, Sydney.
(He was senior medical officer at
the Air Navigation School, Parkes).
Flying Ofllcer Henry Theodore Skill-
man, 30, married, of Parkes.
Pilot Officer John Ignatius Newman,
25, single, formerly of Sydney and
Toowoomba.
Pilot Officer Bailey Mlddlebrook
Sawyer, 34, married, of Parkes.
Aircraftsman Charles Richard Tysoe,
23, single, of Geelong.
All were members of the stall of the
Air Navigation School at Parkes.
Witnesses said the aircraft had be
gun to break up in the air before the
crash.
The machine was conveying Pilot
Officer Sawyer to Sydney for urgent
medical attention. Newman was the
pilot of the plane, Skillman. was navi
gator and Tysoe wireless operator.
Some residents told the police that
portion of one wing fell off In the bush
a few miles from Glenbrook. Small
portions of the plane fell on to the
property of D. Jones, half a mile from
Glenbrook railway station.
One of the engines fell out of the
plane at a height of less than 200 feet
and crashed on to a concrete footpath
In Lucasville road: It then ricocheted
across the road striking an electric
light pole which was smashed.
The bodies of the victims were
thrown some distance from the wreck
age. Shortly after the crash the
plane burst into flames.
Petool stains over a long track sug-
gested that one of the tanks had been
leaking for some distance before the
plane crashed.