AIR CRASHES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1931, Page 5

AIR CRASHES

TWO MEN KILLED. (United Press Asoocmtion.—By Electrio . Telegraph—Copyright;. (Received this day 9.40 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May o. A storekeeper from Xelsonkop arrived at Xftvreeiiiui, a bordort.own or Xa to I and Free Slate and reported lie saw nn aeroplane crash. He travelled as last as possible for sixteen miles, and found two airmen killed. A visiting card Imre name of C ommander Kjd. ston, who with Lic*ut. Gladstone, left .Johannesburg to tly to Alar it/.burg this morning. LOXDOX. .May 5. Xewspa per.s recall Kidsmi’s miraculous escapes. He served in the Xavy and was twice torpedoed during the war. He was sawed from drowning in 1927, when a racing motorboat broke in two travelling at s'-xt.v miles an hour in the Solent, He was in an aeroplane smash on the White Xile in 1928 and crashed into a hedge when motoring at- a speed of ninety-five miles nn hour at Ulster in 1929. He was the only survivor when the German air liner was burned in. Surrey in 1929.

AIRMEN CRASH. BOTH MEN INJURED, LONDON, May 5. Flying low at Forborough common in a sixty-five milo gale, a Horsoley aeroplane piloted by the Schneider Cup pjlot, Wnghoni accompanied by a test pilot, E. Alexander, crashed. The occupants seized parachutes and wore carried for half a mile. Waghorn broke his ankle and injured his head, necessitating an operation. Alexander was cut on the leg. Both were hospitnlled. The machine landed on a factory roof and was smashed.