AN AIR CRASH
ONE PASSENGER DROWNED. (Umtod Press Association.—By Eloctrir ' Telegraph.—Copyright.; (Received this 1 day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 5. The Boston-New York bound trimotored Ford express aeroplane of the Colonial Air Transport, crashed in Boston' harbour. 1J One passenger was drowned,'and eleven more or less painfully injured. The 2 pilots were unhurt. Only the'fbet that the tide was low, averted a tragedy of major proportions. It isjjie first/ea son’s accident on the popular New York-Boston Min. One niptorrstalled’at a low altitude when leaving the "Aerodrome and plane dropped into a spiral. Breaking .off a wiilg against'A'-breaker, it dropped into shallow water and mud. The cabin was flooded and all escaped to the wings', but one'man who was stunned and left in the’cabin, died from immersion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1930, Page 5
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128AN AIR CRASH Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1930, Page 5
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