’PLANE CRASHES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 301, 3 October 1935, Page 5

’PLANE CRASHES

FIVE AUSTRALIANS ON BOARD.

DISASTER OVER THE OCEAN.

WRECKAGE IN BASS STRAIT. (United: Press Association—Copyright) - •’ MELBOURNE; October -2..... The new liner aeroplane Loina, bemen, including two passengers aboard, left Melbourne at 8.15 a.m. for Launceston and disappeared over v Bass Strait. A message was received from the aeroplane at 9.51, indicating that it was aboitt to land on Flinders Islands, but no trace of it was found there.

The civil authorities report that wreckage and a, lifebelt have been sighted near Long Point, Flinders Island.

One of the occupants of the missing machine was Mr G. S. Anderson, a business man of Launceston. Others were Messrs Anderson, Brown and Best., Mr Anderson came from Sydney- . . ; The Loina is a D.H. 86 four-engmed machine of the same type that, figured in two disasters last year, one over Bass Strait,; and the other near Longreach, Queensland. The previous Bass Strait accident , was- also to a of Holy man’s Airways; • v The same type of machine is in use on the Brisbane to Singapore 1 sectidn of the Australia-Englancl service, and on one of Imperial Airway’s routes. The Loina was a practically new machine. .;

SOME HOPE ENTERTAINED.

INFLATED LIFEBELTS FOUND,

(Received This Dav, 10.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day

Experts find difficulty in accounting for the Loina disaster, but some support the theory that portion of the tail snapped, off, causing the ’plane, to go into an uncontrollable spin, r ■> 7 - Hopes that seme of- the ‘ occupants, might have survived the crash have been raised by-the disco very .'ofisix in-, flated lifebelts oil the beach at Flinders Island, These, lifebelts are carried uninflated normally, and the fact that they had been inflatedindicated that some warning of the impending crash was given, to passengers and crew, .