AIR DISASTERS
PLUNGES INTO SEA TWO SIMILAR ACCIDENTS. I FIVE PERSONS LOSE LIVES. PASSENGER AND AIR FORCE. FATALITIES ON BRITISH COAST. (United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 22. A six-seater passenger ’plane, belonging to Western Airways, came down in the British Channel. Motor boats put out and found the ’plane completely wrecked. It recovered the bodies of two passengers. The pilot’s body sank, with the ’plane. Earlier in the day an Air Force Vildebeeste, believed to be practising attacks on warships, plunged into the Firth of Forth, the two occupants being drowned.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19350723.2.46
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 5
Word Count
96AIR DISASTERS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.