CRASH IN FLAMES
AIR MAIL TRAGEDY OCCUPANTS BURNED TO DEATH. SPECTATORS UNABLE TO HELP TRAPPED MEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) REGINA, November 18. En route to Vancouver a transCanada Air Mail plane crashed and was destroyed by fire shortly after leaving Regina airport this morning. Captain David Imrie (pilot) and John Herald were burned to death. Four mounted police, leaving the barracks, were eyewitnesses. They stated that the engines seemed too quiet taking off, and the plane appeared unable to get the proper altitude and crashed nose foremost from 50 feet. The petrol tank exploded, the flames enveloping the wreckage. Spectators were unable to rescue the trapped fliers. The engines, propellors and mail were strewn over the snow when the machine broke in two before its nosedive. Ten sacks of mail were burned. The service was’ inaugurated in April, making nine hundred AtlanticPacific flights without having had an accident.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 8
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153CRASH IN FLAMES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 8
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