FIVE KILLED IN AIR CRASH

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 255, 24 July 1937, Page 11

FIVE KILLED IN AIR CRASH

Bomber Falls in Flames (Received July 23, 7 p.m.) London, July 23. Five people were killed when a threeengined Air Force bomber crashed in flames in Derbyshire hills. Villagers said they saw three Verey lights fired just before the crash, and that the engines seemed to be misfiring. The crash occurred near the summit, which is 2000 ft. high, of the Kinder Scout Mountain. The machine blazed furiously for 30 minutes. The victims are not yet identified. The fact that it was an Air Force machine was only established by the discovery of a notebook near the scene. It is the worst Air Force crash this year. SEAPLANE MISSING Believed to Have Plunged Into Water Melbourne, July 23. An Air Force seaplane containing two pilot officers, Ernest Yde, aged 20, and Charles Houston, aged 23, and which was last seen skimming above the sea near Rye shortly before noon yesterday, has not been seen since. Search planes found a large patch of oil on the sea eight miles from Point Cooke. Air Force officers think that the oil marks the place where the plane plunged into the water. YOUNG PILOT’S SKILL Plane Landed With Retractable Wheels Jammed (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, July 22. r A young pilot, Roland Falk, showed remarkable skill in an emergency yesterday by bringing a twin-engined air liner safely to earth at Croydon aerodrome when its retractable wheels jammed in the up position.