AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1929, Page 4

AVIATION

MORE CRASHES. THREE AT NEW YORK. (United Press Association— By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, December 19. The announcement was made to-day that the International Combustion Engineering Corporation, with a capital,, of forty-three, million dollars is bankrupt. • . This is the third largest insolvency, of the present week. The American Piano Company( one of the largest producers of the instrument in America, with a capital njn excess of three millions) and the Sonbra Corporation (the noted producer of phonographic devices), were the other concerns involved. The Combustion firm is reported to be • solvent but it is unable to obtain the necessary capital. The. concern has entered a receivership .in equity, following on an application filed by the Bethlehem Steel Company. CAPE FLIERS CRASH. THE PROBABLE CAUSE. . ; LONDON. December 20. There is still no connected story of the Royal Air Force distance flyers disappearance on their attempt, to reach the Cape. The French officials express the opinion, that the airmen lost their way in a storm whilst mak- . ing for one of the few patches of open 1 ground, when they were sucked down • by a mountain current, and ran into the side of Ejebelvit Mountain, -2,600 feet high. A lonely horseman saw the plane wreckage there at dawn,.and.he thought that the airmen might be still afjive. He tried to extricate hut he saw that they were dead. A preliminary commission of inquiry found the watch ifrom the instruments on board, which stopped at 9.4 p.m. ■ The bodies of Jones-Williams and Jenkins were brought to Tunis this afternoon aboard a military aeroplane. French Soldiers stood on guard. All bodies had to be lowered by ropes in - order to traverse narrow, rooky paths At other times they swung in rough cradles on the shouldfers of gigantic Soudanese riflemen.

1 GERMAN PLANE CRASHES BERLIN, December ML TJwo German aviators were killed i by the crashing of a Lqfthansa postal t aeroplane, when returning from a trial s mail service flight to' Teneriffe. r A big public reception had been arranged at Berlin for the welcome home but the mahine crashed when trying / to land in a fog at Neuruppin, thirty miles from the ciyt. The pilots, Von Schroder and Albrecht, were killed and the mechanic Eichentoff, was seriously injured. LONDON, Dec. 20. Captain R. C. Chichester, a young Wealthy New Zealander, . has ’ only been flying for a time. He kept his intention a secret beyond informing the New. Zealand air representative^ ; Miles, but he had not'hinted at such, a quick departure. He unexpectedly arrived at Croydon at midnight. Only a handful of aerodrome officials! saw his take-off in a Moth in bril-, liant moonlight at 3 a.m. under perfect conditions. He shouted, “Cheerio, off to Australia.” It is under-* stood Lyons is his first stop. AN AIR SMASH. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. A joyful start for Christmas at homo, which for one man also meant the seeing of a new born baby,, ended tragically whan an aeroplane.crashed in Bolling Field killing five r.en, including Itlie Mkmnehussetts Congressman William Kaynor The ’plane had gained an altitude of about three hundred feet when tbo motor failed and the machine crashed swiftly to earth. All four passentrers and milot died instantly. The dead included Koynor’s secretary, Captain Harry Dinger, art army pilot. HONOUR. FOR, BYRD. WASHINGTON, Dec, 20. A Bill advancing Bvrd to the rank of Rear-Admiral on the retired Navy was passed by the Senate to-day ard sent to the House. NEW YORK, Dee. 20. Byrd has been awarded the Livingstone Centenary Medal, according to an announcement by the National Georgraphical Society.