AEROPLANE CRASH
EFFORTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH PILOT’S RELATIVES.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this dav at 11 a.m.)
NEW YORK, April 7
Efforts are being made in Hawaii to reach the parents of Rupert S. McAllister, the Australian pilot, who was killed in an airplane crash here. The aviator, who had been in the United States eleven years, and had done* flying for a moving picture company, had latterly been a regular pilot for the Bach Aircraft Corporation, at Vannuys, California, and bad flown here with Worden Hunter, president of the concern. The Uirnlane crashed at Roosevelt Field on Friday night following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The plane was burned and tbe bodies were extricated with difficulty.
A representative of the Bach Company here states be is' unable to determine McAllister’s Australian address, but it is believed the aviator’s father is a station owner. Although his initials are unknown, McAllister bad said bis parents were at Honolulu at this time en route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with the latter while the body is held in a local mortuary.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1930, Page 5
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