AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1928, Page 2

AVIATION

AN A lit (HASH

TWO WOMEN INJURED. (I nitod Press Association By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, October 21. While Tolley’ and Wothered were opposing .Mitchell and ('. Wliilrembe in a foursome at lhe opening of f lie new Mole Mount golf course wt Milbail and were approaching the ninth hole, the crowds atienfiou was at l dieted to a Moth circling overhead in a boisterous wind. Suddenly the engine slipped ami the plane spun downwards, the. pilot making a desperate effort to regain control. The plain; nose-dived three hundred feel, crashing at the sixth tee. The players tiling dmvn .their clubs and joined the spec (a tors in a rush to the piano, and found two women in the wreckage. Miss Sieele O’Brien, daughter of Sir Timothy O’Brien, and the second an Englishwoman. who was endeavouring to obtiiu a commercial aviation certificate. She was unconscious with her leg fractured and a foot nearly torn off. Miss O’Brien’s pupil, the Mon. M. lv. I.eith was severely cut in the body and face. Golfers assisted tlic spectators to drag out the women and a man seized the petrol tank, which was

| smashed open and leaking and carried | it lo a distance eliminating file danger ioi lire. The .suffering women were 1 taken to a hospital where Miss ( 0 Urien’s leg wits amputated at the knee. j Bystanders pay a tribute to the a\ ia.tri.v's pluck. -Miss O’Brien when ■ placed in an anilmlance despite her pain was asking the extent ol Miss Leith’s injuries. AIR Tit AO KDY. OKNKV A. October f(J. (.'aught in a whirlwind while Hying, . a Swiss military plane at a height of a thousand feet above Aletscli Glacier, (he pilot, Mancrhofer, with the greatest difficulty righted the machine, looked round and found a girl passenger, Clara Oerher, had disappeared. A search party found her mutilated body on the glacier. aeroplane feat. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Turning a new page in aviation hisI, y )■ )i* women. Miss Eleanoi Smith • "hr lay Hew a pla.no under four Great j lv st river bridges in succession. She recently set a new. altitude record for American women. AEROPLANE CRASHES. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.. ' A sudden violent wind tore off the j wing of a plane which crashed at the j town of Oxford, near Boston, killing I the pilot, Brisbois and a passenger.