AVIATOR KILLED.
A CRASH IN THE NIGHT. AUSTRALIAN IN AMERICA. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 7. Efforts are being made in Hawaii to reach the parents of Rupert S. McAllister, an Australian pilot, who was killed: in an aeroplane crash here. The aviator, who had been in the United States 11 years and had done flying for a moving picture company, and latterly had been a regular pilot for the Bach Aircraft Corporation, Vannuys (California), flew here with Worden Hunter (president of the Corporation). The aeroplane crashed on Roosevelt Field on Friday night, following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The ’plane was burned, the bodies of the two occupants being extricated with difficulty. A representative of the Bach Company here states that he is unable to determine McAllister’s Australian address, but it is believed that the aviator’s father is a station owner, although his initials are not known. McAllister had said his parents were at Honolulu at this time, en route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with the latter while the body is held in a local mortuary.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 151, 8 April 1930, Page 5
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