TRAGEDIES OF AIR.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20267, 9 August 1937, Page 9

TRAGEDIES OF AIR.

A CRASH IN FLAMES. OFF COAST OF PORTUGAL. COMPANY DIRECTORS KILLED. United Press Assn—Eiee. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 9, 1 p.m.) LISBON, August 8. Five directors of the new Portuguese Airline were killed when a ’plane piloted by a director of the company crashed in flames off the coast of Lisbon. WRECK OF A SEAPLANE. THREE PEOPLE DEAD. EIGHT SURVIVORS PICKED UP. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 9, 1.30 p.m.) HONGKONG, August 8. Eight survivors were picked up by a customs vessel in Bias Bay from a wrecked seaplane, which was flying to ' Swatow with a crew of four and seven pasengers. The pilot and (lie passengers were Americans. The others were Chinese. Three of the passengers were killed. AEROPLANES CRASH. COLLISION DURING A RACE. ONE PILOT INCINERATED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. BRISBANE, August 8. Two Gipsy Moth aeroplanes engaged in a race to-day collided at an altitude of 200 l'eet. One machine crashed on the Rocklea show ground and caught ! lire, the pilot, Duncan Ferguson, aged j 35, being incinerated. The other aeroplane, although it was seriously damaged by the impact, was brought down safely at the Archerfleld aerodrome by the pilot, William Hill, who is suffering greatly from shock, but is not injured.