LOST AIR LINER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1938, Page 5

LOST AIR LINER

SIX PERSONS KILLED I TWO NEW ZEALANDERS AMONG VICTIMS ONE REPORTED DEAD By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. AMSTERDAM, November 15. Four members of the crew and two passengers, both German women, were killed in the disaster reported yesterday, in which a K.L.M. (Royal Dutch) Douglas D.C.3. air liner from Berlin crashed in fog and a drizzle of rain at Schipol Aerodrome. The plane carried 14 passengers, all of whom were injured—three seriously —except for the five-year-old daughter of one of those killed. She was found wandering about unhurt after the crash. The passengers in the plane included four British, two Czechs, and eight Germans, some of whom were Jewish refugees. One of those dead is reported to be a New Zealand woman whose name is given as Mrs Clayton. According to the “Daily Sketch,” another New Zealander,' Dr William Fairclough, an eye specialist from Auckland, was among those injured. The plane came in on the radio beam and struck a ditch, where its left wing was torn off. It taxied on one wheel across a field, striking a second ditch, where the other wing was torn off. It then ran a further 400 hundred yards before stopping in a ditch. The dead and injured were scattered across the field. Two were found jammed in the wreckage of the tail. The Jewish passengers arrived at Amsterdam yesterday morning after expulsion from Germany. They were not permitted to stay and were put on the first plane returning to Berlin, where they were again expelled by plane to Holland. It was this plane that crashed. A cablegram received late last night by Mrs Fairclough stated that Dr Fairclough was suffering from purely minor injuries. One of the leading opthalmic surgeons of New Zealand, Dr W. A. Fairclough lives at 216 Remuera Road, Auckland. He is a married man with two sons. He left for Sydney by the Mariposa on September 30 and flew from Sydney to England. Dr Fairclough intended to visit hospitals and clinics in London and then to make a similar tour of Germany and other parts of Europe. It was his plan to be back in New Zealand early in the New Year.