DUTCH PLANE CRASHES
TRAVELLERS TO DOMINION
TRAGEDY NEAR BALI
(By Telegrapa—-Press Association—Copyrlght.s
SYDNEY, January 22.
Eight people were killed when a ■Royal Netherlands Indies Airways Lockheed airliner bound for Sydney crashed into the sea outward bound from Bali todayK
.All five passengers perished, and of the crew of four only the engineer, Mr. J. van't Riet, was saved. He received a broken leg and other injuries.
The airliner was commanded by Qaptain J. Schott, commodore of the line.
The passengers included Mr. D. R<. Harper, who was booked for Wellington, an<3 Dr. W. R. Johnston, who was proceeding /-to Te Awamutu. Mrs. Harper arrived at Sydney today to meet her husband.
The crash occurred about 5 o'clock this morning, Bali time, two minutes after leaving Den Passar Aerodrome. Apparently the wireless operator was unable to send anything other tihan "We are being forced down" before the machine hit tiie water six miles off the Balinese coast. ,'■■
The body of neither of the passengers bound for New Zealand has yet been recovered. Mr. Harper married Miss Betty Ellis, of Wellington, in Singapore in 1937.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 19, 23 January 1940, Page 8
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