FLYING TRAGEDY.
MOUNT TUREWHATE CRASH. CORONER'S VERDICT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HOKITIKA, Thursday. The inquest concerning the death of the victims of the Mount Turiwhate aeroplane accident was concluded this afternoon, a verdict being returned that James Daniel Lynch and Jack Bertram Ren ton were acciden tally killed through the aeroplane in which they were flying coining into contact with the rocky side of the mountain during a dense fog, which prevented the obstruction being observed.
■The coroner and the police paid a tribute to the magnificent work of the search parties, which carried on under particularly trying conditions in most precipitous country.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 290, 8 December 1933, Page 7
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