FOURTEEN KILLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1938, Page 5

FOURTEEN KILLED

AIRWAYS PLANE CRASHES IN JERSEY AFTER LEAVING AIRPORT. VICTIMS INCLUDE FIELD WORKER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. November 4. Fourteen/persons were killed when a Jersey Airways Channel plane crashed on Jersey, after leaving an airport. The victims included a child passenger and also a man working in a field, who was struck by the falling plane. Eye-witnesses state that they saw smoke and flames issuing from one engine after the plane took off. The machine suddenly turned and endeavoured to return, enveloped in flames. Then it crashed down.

A terrific explosion blew out the passengers for hundreds of feet, mutilating them beyond recognition. The pilot was Mr A. G M. Cary, formerly personal pilot to the Viceroy of India. An Independent Cable Service message says the name of the plane was the St Catherine’s Bay. The machine had almost made the boundary of the airport when it suddenly dived, narrowly missing an hotel. Airport officials and the police raced to the scene. Hundreds of people ran from their homes, out it .was impossible to approach the plane because of the terrific heat. The father and mother of the child killed, and two other women, were among the victims.

A business man due to catch the plane for London arrived late at the airport, just in time to see the machine crash.