PLANE CRASHES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 24

PLANE CRASHES

Tragic Wedding Accident

CONFETTI FROM THE AIR

On November 3 two English flying reserve officers, Mr. Grant Dalton and Mr. Philip S. Rook, both of Nottingham, and of the 504th Squadron stationed at Il.uclyiall, had (says the “Sunday Express”) the happy idea of showering confetti from the air on to a wedding party.

Friends of theirs, Mr. H. Soar and Miss Smith, of Beeston, were being married at Attenborougn Church, near Nottingham.Mr. Dalton and Mr. Rook hired an aeroplane at Tollerton aerodrome and ioded it with confetti.

They took off and. while the ceremony was taking place, cruised around

The bridal party had left the church when a wing of the aeroplane appeared to collapse, and the wedding guests saw the machine crash iu a field.

Tlie wreckage burst into flames. Both airmen were killed. The confettti which they bad intended to shower on the wedding party was scattered around the scene of the tragedy. The machine fell on a calf and killed it.

Golfers oji the adjoining Chilwell Manor golf course dropped their clubs and ran to the burning machine. They were able to pull the body of on§ of the victims from the flames, but the other was strapped to the seat.

Mr. Grant Dalton was studying accountancy and was a nephew of Captain A. S. Bright, a member of Nottingham City Council. Mr. Rook, whose mother lives at

Crawley Down, Sussex, was a partner in Messrs Skinner and- Rook, wine merchants of Nottingham. He was a nephew of a former colonel of the Robin Hood Rifles. Nottingham’s famous territorial regiment.