THEORY OF LIGHTNING

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 7

THEORY OF LIGHTNING

MEOPHAM CASE RECALLED

LONDON, 27th July.

Tho. <aoroplan« crash ia Which Mr. Brueo Bossom, his mother, and a passenger, Prince Otto yon' Erbach-Fuer-stenau, woro killed near Farnham, occurred not far from tho houses of Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Snowdon. An cyo-witness said, that the aeropiano emerged suddenly from the clouds. Then there was a terrific explosion. Tho bodies were widely separated when found several hundred feet from the wreckage, and were so mutilated that they wero only identifiable by articles in the pocketß. Only a fow soldiers and pedestrians -witnessed the accident. An officer of tho Border Bcgiment saw tho 'piano emerge from the clouds, wingless, "like a flying bedstead." He was horrified to see the fuselage break up and bodies fall, followed by, the petrol tank. The"News-Chronicle" calls attention to. the extraordinary similarity1 between the crash and the Meopham disaster on 21st July, 1931, when, following an. explosion in an aoroplane, fragments fell from a thick cloud. It is believed that tho' crash was due to lightning striking the 'plane. Mrs. Bossoni often went for flights with her son. His ambition wag to break the records to South Africa, and Australia, and across the Atlantic. Hte narrowly escaped death in May, 1931, when ho crashed-in Cheshire and his inachino took fire. .