KENT' AIR CRASH

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 8, 5 October 1926, Page 11

KENT' AIR CRASH

CAUSE A COMPLETE MYSTERY APPLIANCES SUFFICIENT TO COPE WITH FIRE London. October 3. A French Air Union official who investigated the Kent crash says that it is a complete mystery. 'flic aeroplane was tiie last of its type in the French eross-Channcl service, and apparently in perfect order. She was fitted with a fire-indicator o nd extinguisher, which should have liecn sufficient to cope with the fire.

ALL VICTIMS IDENTIFIED London, October 3. .Ml the victims in the air crash have been identified, including three belonging to a partv of six on a lengthy holiday in Spain, the remainder of the patty having returned by train. THRILLING STORY OF SELF-SACRIFICE ♦ MAN’S HEROIC EFFORTS TO SAVE FAMILY. London, October 3.A thrilling story of self-sacrifice is told in connection with a fire in basket works in Borough Road, London. William Booke, whose family were trapped in an upper floor, after warning the other employees, made his way upstairs through the Hames, and rescued two of his young children. Forbidding another employee to follow him, saying that the fire was too fierce for anyone ■■'sc to face again, Booke mounted the ng staircase. Ffrtaen with unins soaked attempted to use the fireescapes, but were driven back, badly scorched.

When the fire had burned itself out the body of Booke, almost incinerated, and his wife and baby suffocated, were found together.