’PLANE CRASHES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1932, Page 5

’PLANE CRASHES

CAUSE UNKNOWN

BODIES BADLY MUTILATED

(United Press Association—By Electric Teleg.aph—Copyright.)

LONDON, Ju'y 28.

The crash of Borsom’s plane occurred near Chart, not far from the houses of Mr Llovd George and- Lord Snowden. The bodies of the victims were widely separated when they' were found; being several hundred feet from the wreckage. They were so mutilated that they only were identifiable by articles in the pockets. Only a few soldiers and pedestrians witnessed the accident.

An officer of the Border Regiment saw the plane merge from the clouds and it was wingless, like a flying bedstead. He was horrified to - see the fuselage break up, and the bodies, fall'-, followed by the petrol tank. The “News Chronicle” cal’s attention to extraordinary similarity between the Bossom crash to the Meopham disaster oh July 21, 1931,- when, following ah explosion, fragments fell froih a thick cloud.

Mi's Bossom often Went on flights with her son, Otto, who was making his first visit to England, It is believed the crash was due to lightning striking the plane. Bossom',s ambition was to break , the records to South Africa, and Australia, and to cross the Atlantic. He narrowly escaped death’ in May, 1931. when lie crashed in Cheshire, . and his machine took fire.

VON GRONAU’S -ENTERPRISE

MONTREAL, July 26. Count Von 'Grona’u arrived here yesterday, at 6.6 p.m. He announced that he will 'fly to British Columbia, charting an air route, to .speed up the mails for Australia and the Orient.