AIR TRAGEDIES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1930, Page 6

AIR TRAGEDIES

FOURTEEN KILLED

PLANE FALLS 1N : FLAMES

(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright-1

NEW YORK, Jan. 19

A message from San Diego (California) states that fourteen persons wore killed when an aeroplane ion • route to Aguacaliento, in Mexico, crashed in Humes.

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NEW YORK, Jan. 19

News of the San .Diego aeroplane crash shows the machine crashed ten miles south of Ocean Side, between Los Angeles and San Diego. An eyewitness said the motor was missing, and the pilot made a. desperate effort to trcacli. tlioi seashore. Everyone knew something was wrong when the great plane, heavily laden, came careering along only two. hundred ieet off the ground, and wobbjing like a wounded bird, with its motors miss-

ing. .... The pilot, , however, could not. quite make the beach. There was a crash, and a spray of earth flew, as if a giant plow was tearing the country side. A second later, there was an explosion, . and tl).e wreckage burst into flames, causing the worst single disaster in the history of American fly-

ing. • . The plane .was the, tri-motored Fokker, known us a race special, which left the track at-..Aguacaliento at 5.30 after the last race.

ANOTHER TRAGEDY

PLANE DIVES INTO LAKE

VANCOUVER, Jan. 19

Another fearful air accident is recorded. Near.'Palm. Beach, Florida, William Lindley, a wealthy amateur flyer, and two mechanics, were killed, when a new cabin 'seaplane fell into Lake Worth. It appeared as if one wing folded hack, putting the plane out'"of control. The engine was still roaring when the plane hit the watei. Two passengers wer&iseriously injured.

ITALIAN TRAGEDY

ROME, Ja-n. 20

Dalmelin, the' Italian, when testing a new machine with . which it was hoped to, heat the British Schneider Cup record, attained arte enormous speed. In turning, however’; -[the machine sideslipped and - nose-dived into the lake, this tragedy recalling 'the death of Kqtta in August at the;,same -spot. • B-OME, Tan.. 19.

Warrant Officer (Tomaso- Dal Molin was 27 ears of age, and he- was second in the Schneider Cup; He. was killed in the trial flight at Desenzano aerodrome.