THEFT AFTER CRASH.
TRAGEDY NEAR TUNIS. CASE ON ENGLISH RECORDS: LONDON, March 3.. The following bald entry occurs in the air services appropriation account: "To loss of cash by robbery. Two pilots were making a long-distance flight from England. The machine crashed in mountainous country, the pilots were killed and the cash stolen from the wreckage £100." The entry refers to a crash in northern Africa on December 17, 1929, when. Squadron-Leader .Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins were killed. They left Cranwell in an attempt to fly non-stop to Capetown and flew into the side of a mountain near Tunis the same night.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 133, 18 March 1931, Page 5
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