Rabaul Man Killed in Fall
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From Plane
AN unusual accident was responsible for the death of Pilot-Officer Len Bayliss, formerly of Rabaul, New Guinea, when he was training an Air Force recruit in Sydney on November 18.
As the pupil was executing a slow roll manoeuvre, Bayliss’s safety strap came undone and he fell out of the machine, from a great height. He was not wear ing a parachute and crashed to his death in a suburban street.
The cadet pilot did not know his instructor had fallen out until he brought the plane down safely, five min utes after the accident.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Fenn, mission workers at the LMS station at Aird Hill, Papua, arrived in Sydney by the Novem ber “Macdhui” and proceeded to South Australia on furlough.