CRASH ON HOUSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1938, Page 5

CRASH ON HOUSE

AIR FORCE TRAGEDY IN ENGLAND FOUR KILLED & 25 INJURED. FIRE FOLLOWS EXPLOSION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 4. Four persons were killed and twentyfive injured, and three houses set on fire, when an Air Force aeroplane crashed on top of a residence at Edmonton, burst into flames and bounced on to houses across the road, on which the petrol tank exploded as pedestrians scattered. The killed were the pilot of the plane, a woman and two children, one of whom was killed on the road. Hundreds of children playing in a nearby park saw the crash. A boy, Jimmy Tant, was killed as the machine bounced across the road, after nose-diving on the roof of the Tants’ house. It struck a pai|? of houses opposite, in one of which Mr and Mrs Saunders and family were lunching, strewing wreckage in the garden, flinging the engine through an adjacent doorway, igniting the building and fatally burning Mrs Saunders and her son Derek, aged eight, and severely burning her husband and two other children; also a Boy Scout, who had entered to give help, and neighbours who met a flame blast after rushing from their dwellings. The plane was piloted by Sergeant S.- R. Morris.