SMASHED TO PIECES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 194, 30 May 1938, Page 5

SMASHED TO PIECES

AUSTRALIAN BOMBER CRASHES. TWO KILLED, THREE INJURED. WRECKAGE OVER FIVE ACRES. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 9.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 29. An Air Force aeroplane, with five occupants, crashed at Greenhills aerodrome, near Liverpool, this afternoon. The dead are: Flight-Lieut. Allsop and a man named Lockwood. The injured are Raymond Lawson, James Mackay, John Gordon. They are in a critical condition. In addition to broken limbs they have severe internal injuries. The ’plane was engaged in bombing practice, when apparently while flying low or in a forced landing, the ’plane struck the ground and ploughed the earth for a considerable distance. The ’plane was smashed to atoms and the wreckage was distributed over five One body was flung 70 yards. It is believed some of the bombs exploded in the impact.

THE CAUSE NOT KNOWN. (Received Tliis Day, 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. AIL the occupants of the plane were ■members of the Citizens’ Air Force. The plane was an Avro Anson bombing plane. Flight-Lieutenant Allsopp, aged 37, the pilot, of the plane had.charge of all the fuelling arrangements in connection udth the flight of the Southern Cross to New Zealand in 1933. Corporal W. A. ‘Lockwood, aged 22, died alter admission to the hospital. The cause of the accident is not known. The injured men, Gordon and Mackey, told the doctors that they did not know what happened.