FOUR DEATHS
BIG PLANE CRASHES INTENDED FOR SINGAPORE-BRISBAHE SERVICE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, November 15. (Received November 15, at 2 p.m.) Four persons were killed when a fourengined De Havilland biplane crashed twenty-nine miles south of Longreach at 7.30 this morning. This is one of the machines intended for the Singa-pore-Brisbane service. The crew consisted of Captain R. A. Prendergast (of Imperial Airways), W. V. Croastes (co-pilot and wireless operator), F. R. Charlton (engineer), and a Shell Oil Company's representative named Broadfoot, who was travelling as a passenger. All were killed. [A Sydney message received yesterday read: Two large De Havilland biplanes for the Brisbane-Singapore section of the London-Australia air mail are now in Australia, the second machine having reached Darwin. Two more are being shipped from London, and the fifth is being flown to Australia in the middle of December.]
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Evening Star, Issue 21878, 15 November 1934, Page 12
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142FOUR DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 21878, 15 November 1934, Page 12
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