HEARST PLANE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1938, Page 9

HEARST PLANE

LORD AND LADY PLUNKET BURNED TO DEATH

GUESTS IN UsS.A.

(United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW tfORK, February 25. Baron and Lady Plunket and a pilot were killed and another passenger was seriously injured when one of Mr. W. R. Hearst's fleet'of private planes crashj' on his ranch, San Simeon, a mile and a half south of the Hearst airport.

Lord and Lady Plunket arrived last I'uesday aboard i c liner Queen Mary, and were on their way to Mr. Hearst's ranch from Los Angeles when their oilot became lost in t fog which had ieen blanketing the coast since yeserday, Lord and Lady Plunket were burned to death inside the cabin. The pilot was thrown clear of the wreckage. Mr. James Lawrence, a travelling companion, suffered a double fracture of the ankle and severe burns. He is a son of Sir Walter Lawrence, of London.

The pilot, Mr. T. J. Phillips, employed by Mr. learst

Lord Plunket, the sixth baron of that name, was born in 1899 and succeeded his father, 'the fifth baron, former Governor of New Zealand, in 1920. He married in 1922 Dorothe Mabel, daughter of the late Joseph Lewis and widow of Captain Jack Barnato, of the Royal Air Force. He was educated at Wellington College, England, and at Sandhurst, and his heir, the Hon. Patrick Terence William Span Plunket, was born on September 8. 1923 He had a house in London and one in Bray, County Wicklow.