TWO KILLED IN CRASH

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 7

TWO KILLED IN CRASH

AUSTRALIAN MONOPLANE

BUILT FOR TASMAN FLIGtfT

SYDNEY, 16th. June. ". Built for a projected New Zealand flight, the Jones monoplane crashed at Quaker's Hill, near Pariamatta, to-day. The two occupants, Mr., Roy Mitchell, of Mosman, and Mr. Arthur Barnes, a prominent speed motorist, were- killed.

Mr.-Mitchell had "been testing the machine for some time, and took MrJ Barnes as passenger for a joy ride.

Eye-witnesses saw the machine turn sideways and then fall in.a steep dive into a paddock,, where Mr.' Mitchell had a hut for camping during the tests. The engine was buried, inthe earth, and the fuselage became a crumpled, broken mass.' ■. . ' ■"■'■.•:■• "■'■. i . ■-'■ .

The occupants were killed instantly. Everyvbone initheir bodies seemed to be broken. -. • -; ■ ■- "■ .■■ '

A party, which included Mr. Don j Harknesßpand the designer of the ?plane,: Mr. I/. E. Jones, dashed to, the spotjand dragged the men from- the wreckage. An iron rod; had completely : pierced Mr.'Barnes's body. . . -• .

The machine-had' behaved splendidly hitherto.. It was, the. same monoplane which was forced down on sth June at Stuarttown; during an experimental flight to Bourke. Messrs. Mitchell and Jones were then ; the occupants, and they iWefe missing for two days. ■ ■' 'The -engine, is'^a'fiarknes'k-Hornet of rUo\horse-pbwer.: "v^-~y ';: ■:.!■■'.'';^':

Information by; wireless last : night reported; that the Jones monoplane crashed in a. half gale. When approaching the paddock used as a. landing ground the machine, which had behaved well; for ten minutes, faltered, turned on its side, and nose-dived, striking some -gum trees. ■