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| | NE Diary 1939-45; Incidents 12th April 1944 to 26th August 1945 |
 | | A Norwegian Spitfire pilot on a training flight from Eshott airfield in Northumberland, was killed in a mid-air collision, over the airfield, with a USAAF Thunderbolt attached to the Flight Leaders School based at Milfield airfield near Wooler. |
 | | It struggled to gain height, but the flying surfaces soon iced up, the added weight was too much and the plane fell out of the sky at 15.00, partially disintegrating in the process. |
 | | The wireless operator/air gunner baled out but he was too low and his parachute failed to open properly, luckily an explosion from the crashing bomber was enough to decelerate his fall and he landed heavily on a shed roof, but was seriously injured. |
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