CRASH IN FLAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 9

CRASH IN FLAMES

AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN KILLED IN U.S.A. SEARCH FOR PARENTS United F.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Mon. Efforts are being made in Hawaii to reach the parents of Rupert S. McAllister, the Australian pilot, who was killed in an airplane crash here. The aviator who had been in the United States for 11 years and bad done flying for the Metro-Goldwyn moving picture company and latterly as a regular pilot for ttie Bach Aircraft Corporation and Vannuys, California, had flown here with Mr. Worden Hunter, president of the concern. Their airplane crashed at Roosevelt Field on Friday evening following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The plane was burned and tit* bodies were extricated with difficulty. A representative of the Bach Company here informed the Australian Press Association that he was unable to determine McAllister’s Australian address, but it was believed that the aviator’s father was a station owner, although his initials were unknown. McAllister had said his parents were at Honolulu at this time, en route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with them, while the body is held in a local mortuary. TWO GERMANS KILLED LONDON, Monday. A German air pilot and mechanic were killed when a Junker freight airplane bound from Croydon to Berlin crashed in Surrey. It is understood that the machine was being flown at a low altitude to avoid the clouds. The pilot misjudged the distance from the earth, and the airplane crashed and burst into flames.