Jimmie Wedell's crash site just outside of Patterson
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Frank Seeringer, a Wedell-Williams student pilot, was in the middle of a lesson when the Gypsy Moth crashed. Wedell was at the controls and died instantly. Seeringer survived with critical injuries.
Image Courtesy of the Wedell-Williams Memorial Foundation and the Louisiana State Museum
This file appears in: End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
End of the Wedell-Williams Air Service, Patterson
Jimmie Wedell would never enter the MacRobertson Race from England to Australia. The Gypsy Moth in which he was giving a lesson crashed just outside of Patterson on June 24, 1934. Wedell died…