CRASH OF BRITISH AIRLINER

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 11

CRASH OF BRITISH AIRLINER

Three Occupants Killed

DOWN NEAR COLOGNE IN GALE

(British Official Wireless.)

Rugby, March 16.

While engaged in a night flight from Croydon to Cologne, the four-engined Imperial Airways liner Jupiter crashed 25 miles west of Cologne. A gale, accompanied by snow and sleet, was blowing. The news of the disaster was conveyed to the House of Commons by the Under-Secretary of State for -Air, Sir Philip Sassoon, who stated that the three occupants of the machine, Captain Holmes, the pilot, Mr. Langman, the wireless operator, and Mr. Wolley Dod. European manager for Imperial Airways, who was the only passenger, are dead. There were no mails on board. The cause of the accident is not yet determined.

The machine left Croydon last evening, and had been missing since she was reported over Brussels shortly after 11. p.m. Another airliner left Croydon this morning to fly over the route taken by the aeroplane. A message from Berlin says the wreckage of the Jupiter was found burned near Memmingen, in Bavaria.

The wreckage was found by a woodcutter in a forest. The pilot apparently was forced down by the snowstorm. The liner lilt a large elm and was broken to pieces. Trees were set on fire.