Sudden Death From
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The Sky
A girl from Butaritari, in the Gilbert Islands, was killed in May by a supply drop from a US aircraft working for the US Trilateration Survey Party, which is taking measurements in the islands of the Pacific. On May 9 the aircraft was dropping supplies by parachute on to a clear space near the house of Nei latinta Tekebo, when one box fell away, crashed through the roof of the house and struck the girl on the head. She died instantly.