TWO PILOTS KILLED
UNION AIRWAVS PLANE DESTROYED AFTER FORCED LANDING AT AUCKLAND. NO PASSENGERS ON BOARD. (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. Union Airways head office has received the following advice from Auckland this morning: “Regret to advise that the Lockheed A.F.C. Kotare, with Pilots Duthie and Peel, but no passengers, after taking off, was observed to be in difficulties, and . landing one mile on the west side of the aerodrome approximately at 12.22 o’clock, burst into flames. Afraid there is no doubt that both pilots were killed.” The machine was scheduled to leave Auckland at 12.15 o’clock. GROUNDSMAN’S REPORT. ON SCENE FOUR MINUTES AFTER CRASH. (By Telegraph—Press Association). AUCKLAND, This Day. Both pilots were either killed or burnt to death. Their names are C. M. Duthie and W. J. Peel. There were no passengers aboard the plane. The manager of Union Airways said the groundsman at the aerodrome saw the machine being forced down. He motored along the road and ran across a paddock, reaching the scene four minutes after the crash. On reporting to headquarters, all he could say was that both pilots were dead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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