FALL OR JUMP!
| AIR LINER TRAGEDY. | Passenger Disappears From 'Plane in Flight. OVER BELGIAN DISTRICT. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON", January 4. The question whether he fell or jumped has been raised in connection with the disappearance of Max V. Wenner, from the Cologne-Brussels air liner. Passengers who came to London from Brussels in another 'plane stated that they saw Wenner write letters, put them in his pocket and leave the compartment. Later they felt a bang and a shudder of the fuselage. The door in tile floor of the luggage locker was damaged. The bang, therefore, was presumably caused by the door slamming shut owing to wind pressure. The 'plane was then about 3000 feet over the Meuse district. Wenner was about 49 years of age. He was reputedly wealthy and lived at Batchcote Hall, Shropshire. His wife, to whom he was most devoted, died in July. The case recalls the tragic disappearance of Captain Loewenstein, noted European financier, from a rnacTiine over the English Channel in 1928.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1937, Page 7
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