AWFUL AIR TRAGEDY
, ON THE ROCKIES. EIGHT VICTIMS. (United Press Association—By Electric ' Telegraph—Copy right j. ’* " 1 VANCOUVER, Bept. D. . All eight bodies of'the victims of tne ' New Mexico airplane tragedy wore brought into the town ’of Grant on litters between horses, except the women’s bodies, which were Sb severely burned as to be unrecognisable, but for dental marks. -The plane first hit i the top of a pine tree, sixty feet trom the ground. Its left motor struck.the tree. Then ithe plane reeled against the face of a rocky precipice, swung i sideways, and for another hundred feet the air liner, pinged, breaking off many trees, and literally unrooting others. The debris lay scattered over an area Of one hundred and fifty square feet. . There was evidence: of a gasolene ex-plosion,-several trees being seared by • - 'scorching flames. 1 Every ’piston was v torn from'one of the engines, and the steel-’dabin had been melted down by the intense heat. ■ ' j‘i *j- The passengers were all huddled together into the front 1 of the cabin ■when the crash ,came,, 2 Drenching rain prObhbly prevented s■' sbrious' forest fire following the explosion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1929, Page 5
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189AWFUL AIR TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1929, Page 5
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