DOUBLE FATALITY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 190, 25 May 1934, Page 5

DOUBLE FATALITY

NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN KILLED.

'PLANE CRASHES IN A WHEAT FIELD, BODIES UNRECOGNISABLE. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day,. 11.40 a.m.) , .LONDON, May 24. Within sight of Empire Day visitors at the Andoyer Aerodrome, Flying-Officer-'George Etton Williams, son of Mrs C. Williams, of Wellington, New Zealand, and Corporal Rohert Brown were killed when a 'plane crashed and hurst into flames at Monxton. The aircraft was a mass of ruins and the bodies were unrecognisably burned. The 'plane, which was engaged, with others, in routine flying, got into a spin when flying low and nose-dived into the middle of a wheat field. The heat droy.V back rescuers. An ambulance and fire-engine were rushed to the scene nnavailingly.'

A WELL-KNOWN ATHLETE. OARSMAN AND BOXER. (Per Press Association). , WELLINGTON, This Day. Flying-Officer Elton Williams, whose death in the Air Force aviation accident, reported by cablegram to-day, was well known in athletic : circles in Wellington. With George Cooke 'he won the New Zealand pair-oared championship for the Star Boating Club in 1929, and for some years he was.a member of. the Oriental Football Club's first fifteen. Shortly after going to England Williams wonl the Air Force heavy-weight boxing championship from Beamish, the international footballer who came to New Zealand with the last British team. Williams also i epresented . tHe Air , Force at football. . Flying-Officer Williams has two brothers in New Zealand, one of whom is Superintendent of the Porirua Mental Hospital. Flying-Officer Williams term with the-British Air Force was to have expired this month, and his return, to New Zealand was expected atiany time. ' .......