AIR TRAGEDY
THREE LIVES LOST
[United Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph.—-Copyright.]
(Received this day at 9.10 a.in.) • v t VANCOUVER'' March 25
A pilot and t>vo... passengers were burned to death when an aeroplane owned by Wallace Beery, a screen actor, went into a tail spin, 500 ft. above an. American suburb at the rear ,of Eos Angeles and crashed into a field with a terrific impact, bursting into ilames.
Beery’s pilot, the latter’s wife and another aeroplane pilot friend were in •.the machine which was a cabin biplane. The actor was not nlmard. A ■spluttering motor caused the plane to lose, altitude. Motorists who rushed to the scene •when the machine struck, could see the • bodies behind a wall of flames, .hut rescue-was impossible. ■ ’ -
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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