AN AIR CRASH
K.A.F. ’PLANES TWO BURNED TO DEATH. (United Press Association—By ElectricT elegr aph—Oopyrigh t). LONDON, September 26. One of the Royal Air Force planes, when returning from the naval manoeuvres just held in Scotland, crashed in Northumberland, and two of the occupants were burned to death. The fatalities resulted in spite of the fact that another plane that was consort to this one landed and its crew attempted to drag the victims from the blazing wreckage. There is also a second day-bomber plane missing from the same squadron, and this fact prevents the officials from identifying either the burned plane itself or the two victims.
> Regarding the Royal Air Force crash, twelve other machines that were returning from the Scottish manoeuvres were- forced down at South Shields, where one of them crashed while landing. The plane was wrecked, and its occupants jumped over board, and they were not injured. Nine of the planes later on con* tinued their journey, but they were compelled t 0 turn and to land near Newcastle-on-Tyne, after flying perilously low,
KIXGSFORD SMITH. STARTING ON SUNDAY. SYDNEY, September 27. ■Kingsford Smith has cabled from London that he will begin his flight to Australia next Sunday, weather permitting in a Percival Gull machine, which will have a cruising range cf 1630 miles, and a speed of 140 miles an hour. His route is to be via Brindisi and Calcutta.
THE DEAD MEN. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) , LONDON, September ‘27. I The incinerated occupants of the I Air Force bomber, were Flying Officer j Norman Meyrick Styche, whose relatives are in Melbourne, and also Aircraftsman M. White. A BAD YEAR, , LONDON, September. 21. A partly burned parachutist nearby suggested that Styche and White attemped to jump for their lives. Tlie Air Force had the most anxious night since the war. An unremitting search failed to reveai a trace of the missing hombel'. There have been forty-eight deaths in nine months of 1933 compared with fifty throe last year,
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 5
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334AN AIR CRASH Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1933, Page 5
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