AIR SMASH

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1930, Page 5

AIR SMASH

ONE OF THE VICTIMS. I United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) , ' '• • • >- '•••'. • ( . - r < LONDON, July 21,;^ Lord Londonderry and the Duke of ' Sutherland, the brother of Lady Ednan visited a simple hut that was. > serving as a mortuary near Gravesend. ?•• •.after; the crash, and entered simultap-) •tl eously with the fathers of the two pilots. The police artd othe'rs searched long : v after nightfall, for any fragment of ..... debris, likely to afford a clue to the . cause of the crash. Y The Prince of Wales has freqiiently. flown at week-ends to La Touquet, where he was the J guest of the late Mrs Loeffler. The Prince’s equerry Mr Piers Leigh, would have travelled in the ill-fated plane if there had been room. Leigh crossed the Channel by steamer. , THE GRAVESEND SMASH. ... EXPERT’S THEORIES. ’ ' (Received. this /dn.Voat 10.30 a;mA„ ■LONDON, July. 22;;.,, \m W Airr Ministry • .expert tiheoiris^'s, ...' engine; became ..-detached in .: , Hen4.ersoh’ / 8 ;,aerop!flne,i which comej j quently; overturned, and .the occupants , /were hufied.• ;violently ■■i through the metal roof, which waa ; . ripped, from, end to end. The force of their lmport, therewith, would cbe^sufficient to / ; i ' mammmmmmmmmmm ■ " ~ a ’ i-..