THREE PERSONS KILLED
RESCUE IMPOSSIBLE. PLANE CRASHES AND BURNS. A TERRIFIC IMPACT. Uni*ed Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. —Copyright. (Received March 20, 9.35 a.m.) VANCOUVER, March 25. The pilot and two passengers were burned (o death when an aeroplane owned by Mr Wallace Beery, a screen actor, went into a tailspin 500 feet above Alhambra, a suburb of L°s Angeles, and crashed into a field with a terrific impact, bursting into iiames. Recry’s pilot, the latter’s wife, and another aeroplane pilot, a'friend, were in the machine which was a cabin biplane. The actor was net aboard. A spluttering motor caused the plane to lose attitude. Motorists who rushed to the scene when I lie machine struck could see the bodies behind a wall of flame, but rescue was impossible.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 5
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