PLANE DESTROYED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1938, Page 7

PLANE DESTROYED

AMERICAN PASSENGER MACHINE CRASH IN WOODED AREA NEAR LOS ANGELES ALL ON BOARD KILLED By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. CLEVELAND, May 25. A transport plane en route from New York to Los Angeles crashed and was burned in a wooded area eight miles from here. Seven passengers and the crew of three were killed. None aboard the plane survived. All the bodies removed from the wreckage were so badly charred that recognition was impossible and indentification is expected to be difficult. At the time of the crash the plane was within three miles of landing at Cleveland airport and was already visible from the control tower. The cause has not been established, but spectators said that only one motor was operating and was spitting fire. Accounts are conflicting as to whether the machine caught fire before the crash. Flares littered the ground in the vicinity of the scene indicated that the pilot was searching for an emergency landing. It was a sleeper plane and possibly some passengers died in their sleep. They were all men mostly business executives. The crew included a stewardess. CRASH IN CANADA ONE KILLED AND THREE INJURED PRINCE GEORGE, 8.C., May 25. One was killed and three were injured in the crash of a Pacific Airways plane near here. One of the injured is a woman.