MOTH PLANE CRASHES
TWO MEN KILLED / Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, December 27. (Received December 27, at 10.15 a in.) After spinning several times in the air at a height "of 300 ft a Modi aeroplane .nose-dived and crashed at Esscndon. The machine instantly hurst into flames, and Brian Rhodes (24), the pilot, and Alfred Heaton (18), a passenger, were burnt to death. The flames were so fierce that the machine was almost in ashes before the spectators reached it. It was impossible to extricate the bodies of the victims until the fire died down. Rhodes was regarded as one of the cleverest pilots in°the Melbourne section of _ the Aero Club. The scene of- the accident is a remote area of grass paddocks, and ten minutes elapsed before any people arrived.
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Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 10
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131MOTH PLANE CRASHES Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 10
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