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THE YORKSHIRE POST, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1938

HULL YOUTH KILLED IN
AIR MISHAP
250ft, FALL FROM MACHINE
R.A.F. ACCIDENTS

Falling, from a machine which had just taken off, Aircraftman (second
class) Walter George Goodhand (18) lost his life at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire,
yesterday. He lived at Spring Street, Hull

The machine from which Goodhand, fell belonged to. Number 57 Bomber Squadron,
Upper Heyford, and was piloted by Pilot Officer C. T. Norman (Clive Theodore Norman)

Lewis gun ground practice was being carried out. The plane took an acute turn
at a height of about 250 feet and Goohand fell out crashing
into a hedge oon the border of the aerodrome. The pilot was at first
unaware of the accident. It is thought the machine may have struck an air “bump”
as Goodhand was leaning out.
Goodhand had recently completed his apprenticeship and had been at Upper Heyford
only a short time.