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RAF Pilot crashes in field at Treeton
September 1930Pilot Officer Alfred Cecil Sant, who crashed in an R.A.F. bombing machine from a height of 40ft. in a field at Treeton, near Sheffield, on Tuesday, died in Rotherham Hospital yesterday.
He was the only person in the aeroplane when it fell, and received severe head injuries, and one of his legs was badly cut.
The machine dug two large holes in the ground, and Sant had to be pulled out by miners who were passing and who feared that the machine would burst into flames at any moment.
Sant is the 47th member of the Royal Air Force who has lost his life in an accident this year, as compared with 42 for the whole of 1929.