AEROPLANE CRASH
PILOT & PASSENGER BURNED TO DEATH 1
TRAGEDY IN VICTORIA
Melbourne, December 27.
After spinning several times in the air at a height of 300 feet, a Moth aeroplane nose-dived and crashed at Essendon. The machine instantly burst into flames. Brian Rhodes, 24. the pilot, and Alfred Heaton, 18, his passenger, were burned to death. The flames were so fierce that the machine was almost in ashes before the spectators reached it. It was impossible to extricate the bodies of the victims until the fire died down. Rhodes was regarded as one of the cleverest pilots in the Melbourne section of the Aero Club. The scene of the accident is a remote area of grass paddocks, and ten minutes elapsed before people arrived.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 9
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124AEROPLANE CRASH Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 9
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