CRASHED IN BUSH
Aviator’s Body in Cockpit SEARCHERS REACH PLANE (Rec. June 19, 7.30 p.m.) Melbourne, June 19. Searchers located Inspector Eklns’s aeroplane with its nose deeply buried in the side of the mountain at Tallarook. The machine was upside down and Inspector Ekins’s body was huddled in the cockpit with terrible Injuries to the head. Portion of one wing was high up in a tree, and the remnants of the other wing were In the adjoining trees. It is believed that owing to the bad visibility. Inspector Ekins was flying low, hit a tall tree on the mountain side and crashed. ■He was a respected member of the Civil Aviation Department.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 226, 20 June 1931, Page 7
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