TWO KILLED

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1932, Page 5

TWO KILLED

IN AIR TRAGEDY PROPOSED NEW ZEALAND FLIGHT (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, June 16. Built for a projected New Zealand ' flight across the. Tasman, the Jones monoplane crashed at Quaker’s Hill, j near Parramatta, to-day. | The two occupants, Roy Mitchell, of Musmnn, and Arthur Barnos, a prominent speed motorist, were killed. Mitchell had been testing tlie machine for some time. He took Baines as a passenger for a joy ride. Eye witnesses saw the machine turn sid-'eways, and then fall in a steep dive 1 into a paddock, where Mitchell bad a hut for camping during the tests. The 1 engine was buried in the earth. The fuselage was crumpled into a broken mass. The occupants were killed instantly. Every bone in their bodies seemed broken. A party, including Don Harkness, and the designer °f 'tlie plane, L. R. Jones, dashed to the spot, and dragged the men from the wreckage, an iron rod having completely pierced Bameo’s body. The men’s features were not recognisable, The machine had behaved splendidly hitherto. It was the same monoplane which was forced down, on June sth. at Stuarttown, during nil experimental flight to Bourke, Mitchell and Joneo then being the occupants, and who were missing for two days. The engine was a.' Harkness Hornet, of 110 horse power.