AIR LINER CRASHES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 11

AIR LINER CRASHES.

THREE PERSONS KILLED. ACCIDENT AT SHANGHAI. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —B7 CI/RCTBIC TELEGRAM —COI VKIGHT.) (Received December oth, S.oO p.m.) SHANGHAI, Decern'»cr 0. The Ilankow air mail liner crashed today at Shanghai, while taking off. The pilot, Baul Baer, the co-pilot who is a Chinese, and a passenger, Mrs Andreava, a Russian, were killed. General Ilsiung-shi-wei. the garrison commaii.lcr, ami three Chinese passengers wore seriously injured. This is the iirst accident since the service was commenced. The air liner was rising from the Whangpoo river when it struck the mast of a junk. The wing was torn off and the machine crashed into the river. HEIGHT RECORD FOR INDIA TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND FEET IN FIFTY MINUTES. (Received December oth, S.UO p.m.) DELHI, December 9. Flying-Officer Matthews and Lieutenant Grylls, of the Royal Engineers, accomplished a height record t'or India yesterday, by climbing to 24,000 feet above New Delhi in 50 minutes. They obtained a wonderful view of the snowclad Himalayas without leaving the capital. LONG RANGE MONOPLANE. QUEST FOR NON-STOP RECORD. (Received December 9tii, 7.-10 p.m.) I.OXDON, December 9. The Air Ministry lias ordered a long range monoplane, the exact duplicate of the Fairey-Napier machine which crashed in last year's non-stop London to Cape Town (light. With this new machine the Department hopes to capture the world's non-stop record. [A "Royal Air Force Fairey-Napier monoplane, piloted by Squadron-Leader Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins, took off from the Cromwell Aerodrome on December 17th, licit), in an attempt to make a record non-stop flight to Cape Town. The machine crashed in a storm in the mountainous region of Zaghouan, south of Tunis, and both aviators were killed.] FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT HILL AT BIMA. (Received December 9th, 7.40 p.m.) WELTEVREDEX, December !). The aviator, Flight-Lieutenant C. W. Hill, left Sourabaya this morning, and arrived at Bima.