FATAL PRACTICE FLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 22277, 2 March 1936, Page 15

FATAL PRACTICE FLIGHT

An English mother who had forbidden Imr daughter, an only child, to fly, learned recently that the girl had been killed in an aeroplane trash at Alicante, Spain, when the machine caught fire. The girl, Miss Betty Malcolm, aged It, daughter of Brigadier-general H. H. Malcolm, of Cantord Cliffs, near Bournemouth, was planning an attempt on the record for a solo flight from England to Australia, and a friend stated that her fatal flight was a practice one. She had lauded at Alicante to refuel on her wav from Barcelona to \ alencia, and had just taken off when she banked sharply to avoid the hangar. One wing touched the ground, and the machine crashed into the hangar. Aerodrome officials ran to help, but could not get near ilio burning wreckage for more than nair a,l Her U moihor first heard of her daughter s fate when a ‘Daily Mail’ reporter spoke to her at her home. “ She was my only child,” she said. “ I was strongly opposed to her flying. I was. afraid that Betty would kill herself, but she would not listen pointed to the splendid flights she had made all over Europe since she learned to fly about three years ago, and said she was determined to become famous. “Betty would rush off at a moments notice without telling anybody where she was going, and, with only a few things flung hastily into a suit case, disappear in her aeroulcne across the Channel for ■weeks on end ”