AN AIR DISASTER
AT FEET OF SULTAN OF MUSCAT. ■ "i' (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Oopyri ghO,. (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Crashing into the Royal enclosure from which the King watches the annual air pageant at Hendon, an Air Force aeroplane buried itself deep into the ground. The two occupants, Pilot Lieut. Somerhill, and Mechanic Corporal Loud, were killed. The crash occurred a few yards from the Sultan of Muscat in whose hobour j the force was giving a display. Five types of bombers were flying past at one hundred miles an hour at a height of two hundred feet when the tail of Somerbill’s machine detached itself and the machine nose-dived. Loud jumped from the machine at a height of 150 feet. The Sultan, who was robed in red and gold and wearing a. green turban jumped, iip, stretched out his arms and cried out in horror. Likewise horror stricken, the bandmaster started a gay tune and drowned the cries, while ambulances removed the bodies and the crowd departed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1928, Page 5
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174AN AIR DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1928, Page 5
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