’PLANE CRASHES
TWO AVIATORS INCINERATED. ON TRANS-CANADIAN SERVICE. FIRST MISHAP IN 900 FLIGHTS. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) REGINA, November 18. En route to Vancouver, a trans-C’an-adian air-mail ’plane crashed and was burned shortly after leaving Regina airport this morning.
Captain David Imrie, the pilot, and Mr John Herald were burned to death.
Four mounted police who were leaving the barracks were eye-witnesses of the accident. They stated that the engines seemed to quieten down after taking off, and the ’plane appeared to be unable to get altitude, crashing nose foremost from 50 feet. The petrol tank exploded, flames enveloping the wreckage.
The spectators were unable to rescue the trapped flyers. The engines, propellers, and mail were strewn over the snow when, the machine broke in two before the nosedive, Ten sacks of mail were burned. The service was inaugurated in April, making 900 Atlantic-Pacific flights without having a -previous accident.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 34, 19 November 1938, Page 8
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