BRITISH AIR DISASTER
LONDON-PAEIS LINER
CRASH IN THE CHANNEL
British Official Wireless. (Received 18th June, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, 17th June.
An Imeperial Airways liner bound from Croydon for Paris crashed in the Channel this morning, and seven passengers lost their lives. Four passengers and the pilot and mechanic were rescued, and landed at Folkestone. They were all injured. One dead passenger was recovered and landed ai Folkestone.
The air liner left Croydon at halfpast ten this morning. An hour afterwards, when she was in mid-Channel, th*. pilot sent mt a signal of distress to Croydon. He then turned and made an attempt to reach land. A few minutes later he came down about three miles south-east of Dungeness. The aeroplane is the City of Ottawa. It is a *win-engined Handley Page, and was placed in commission in March, 1926. It has since flown more than 250,000 miles, and made approximately 9000 Channel crossings. '_ Three of the dead passengers are women, and three of the rescued passengers are women also.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 18 June 1929, Page 9
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