AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

N.S.W. PILOT KILLED IN CRASH

(Australian Fres* Association.)

.SYDNEY, December 6

An Australian Air Force aeroplane nose-dived for three hundred feet during a forced landing near the Richmond Aerodrome to-day. Flying Officer Blarney was killed, and his mechanic was slightly injured.' Bl a ~ hiey, who had been two years in the Air Force, was a skilled pilot. He was a s on of General T. A. Blarney, the Victorian Commissioner of Police, who is at present visiting Sydney for the test match.

FRENCH FAR EAST SERVICE. MARSEILLES, December 6,

The French 'Oriental Company ha lS arranged an extension of the regular Marseilles-Saigon air service to Hanoi, Canton and Hong Kong, which is brought within te.n days of Paris and eleven of London.

ANOTHER FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA DARWIN, December 6.

An aviator, J. R: Herbert has arrived '.her e from Koepang. He landed at 3.30 p.m. local tim e , after flying his Gipsy Moth plane by easy stages. Herbert, who is a Canadian, left England on October 12. H© intends to ship his machine back to Vancouver, and then to fly to his home at Montreal.

YOUNG GIRL’S FATAL CRASH

(Received this day a l- - 10.20 a.m.) CAIRO, December <3. During a fog, in which ehe lost the escorting plalne, a girl flyer, G'abi Angeil'inc, who is-only 16 years of age, cn route to Italy and India, crashed at Cyranaica, and was fatally injured.