AIRMEN DIE IN FLAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 347, 7 May 1928, Page 9

AIRMEN DIE IN FLAMES

MOTH PLANE CRASHES TWO ENGLISHMEN KILLED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) Reed. 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. Mr. R. Hopper, an air pilot, and Mr. D. Tanner, a passenger, both members of the Bristol-Wessex Airplane Club, were making a flight in a Moth when the machine went into a spin at a height of 100 feet and nosedived. The plane crashed and became aflame. Club members rushed up, but were helpless, and the victims were incinerated. EIGHT JAPANESE KILLED (Australian Press Association.) TOKYO, Saturday. The first passenger airplane built in Japan crashed on her trial trip. Eight occupants of the machine were killed. TWO CANADIANS PERISH MONTREAL, Saturday. A double aviation fatality is reported from Brantford, Ontario. Mr. John Rosencrans and Mr. James Latey, of Buffalo, United States, were instantly killed when a biplane in which they were flying plunged into Lake Erie. A terriffle explosion reduced the plane to matchwood. TOLL OF NAVAL AIRMEN WASHINGTON, Saturday. The Secretary of the Navy, Mr. C. D. Wilbur, has appointed a special investigating board in an effort to reduce accidents in the naval branch of ‘the air service. Of these, there have been IS2 in the past nine months, at | a cost of 27 lives.