AID COLLISION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 5

AID COLLISION

FOUR MEN & TWO WOMEN KILLED IN SYDNEY DISASTER NEAR MASCOT AERODROME. ONE MACHINE FALLS IN RIVER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh' SYDNEY. November 19. Two aeroplanes collided at a height of 500 feet in the vicinity of Mascot aerodrome this morning. The occupants of both machines, four men and two women, were killed. The names at present tire not available. One plane containing four joy-riders fell in the Cooks River and the other a Gipsy Moth instructional plane, with two occupants, crashed after the collision on the nearby golf links. NAMES OF VICTIMS SYDNEY. This Day. The victims of the air collision were John- Jones, who was the pilot of the Monospar machine: William Silvertsen. aged 26: Mrs Monica Hatswell. aged 44: Miss Edith Richardson, aged 19: James Cicutti. aged 30. pilot of the Gipsy Moth: a fellow passenger. Frederick Davidson, aged 25. Both machines were preparing to land at Mascot and were following the course of Cook’s River when the collision occurred. The Monospar with its four occupants fell like a rocket into Cook's River and there was considerable trouble in recovering the wrecked submerged machine and establishing the identification of the victims, all of whom were badly injured. The Gipsy Moth, with one wing stripped crashed on to the Bonnie Doon Golf course in the presence of the golfers, who rushed to the scene and dragged the occupants out. bul they were beyond aid. It is now learned that both planes were engaged in pleasure flights.