A FLYING ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 8

A FLYING ACCIDENT

DEATH OF MAJOR B. S. JORDAN,

(FROM OUR OWN CORBESPONDENI.)

LONDON, 4th June,

About 7 o'clock on the evening of 24th May Major B. S. Jordan, 2/C.1.R., wont up for a flight as a passenger in an aeroplane piloted by an American aviator. Unknown to the pilot, the .machine, was. unequal to the strain of extra evolutions, and while attempting to loop tho loop a wing collansed, and tho machines fell from a 'height of 1000 ft, both oflicora being killed outright. On that afternoon, sports had been held at tho Now Zo.ilnnd Hospital at Codford, and the aeroplanes ' came ■ over and did eonitt tttnnta. It landed, and Major Oordnri want up for a flight. The accident haprionuil very soon, after. flip, Now Zealand officer was second in command at tho New Zealand Command Depot, Codford. He belonged to tlm CimU'.rlnu'y Regiment, and his appointment dated from August,' 1914 (Main (iody). He lived near Rangiora, mid held rank as major in the North Canterbury and Westl.ind Regiment (Territorial Force). At the inquest a vonlict of accidental death was returned. Tin* funeral took place at Codford two days later, with full military honours, tins funeral, service being read by the Rev. G. E. Cruiekshank, O.F. Afterwards the Masonic rites were- carried out at the grave by Lieutenant-Colonel Barclay, V.D., N.Z.E., who went from Moscombi! at the. request of the New Zuiiliind brethren at Codford Depot. Major Jordan was a member of Lodge Ashley, No. 28, Pwingiora. His tragic death is much regretted.