FLYING TRAGEDY IN EAST INDIES
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AIR MAIL CRASHES FIVE KILLED WHEN DUTCH 'PLANE FAILS TO RISE COL. BRINSMEAD A PASSENGER
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SINGAPQRE, Sunday. A Dutch air mail 'plane overturned when leavipg Donmuang (Siam) on the way home. Five were. killed. Golonel Brinsmead, of Australja, who was a passenger, suffered concussion and broken ribs. His condition on Sunday night had hnprovqd since the morning. The 'plane, which failed to rise, struqk an embankment, and a wheel came off, the maqhine heing overturned in a paddy field. Air-Commodore Kingsford Smith arrived on the scene at noon,, re-fuell-ed, and hopped off for Rangoon. Colonel Brinsmead, who joined the 'plane at Alor Star, is now in the Rangoon hospital. - Colonel H; C. Brinsmead, ( Controller of Civil Aviation in Australia, was a* passenger for England on the air liner Southern Sun, which crashed on November 26 at Alor Star (Malay Federated States), when conveying the Christmas air mail from Australia and New Zealand to England. He was slightly injured. It was then stated that' he intended to return to Australia.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 December 1931, Page 5
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