AVIATION
PLANE TAKES FIRE,
WHEN FALLING INTO THE SEA
(United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 2
Regarding the air collision a later message from Santa Monica states the collision was between two commercial cabin aeroplanes. They were believed to be carrying five persons each when they collided. They were both three miles off shore, and they both plunged into the' sea.
It is considered probable that all aboard were killed.
The planes were flying in stunt performances for the Fox Films Corporation. One of the passengers was Kenneth Hawks, the Director, and the husband of the cinema actress, Mary Actor, and the brother-in-law of the- actress, Bessie Love.
It is reported by a third plane from which an aviator was about to leap on a stunt parelnite jump, that the pilot of the third plane said: “I saw the planes meet head on, then burst into flames, and drop into the .sea, after which fishing boats rushed to the scene in an endeavour at a rescue.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1930, Page 5
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