AIR DISASTERS

Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 8

AIR DISASTERS

CRASH IN FLAMES PORTUGUESE PLANE TRAGEDY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LISBON, August 8. (Received August 9, at 2 p.m.) Five directors of a new Portugues® air line were killed when a plane, piloted by the company’s directors, crashed in flames off the coast of Lis* bon. SEAPLANE WRECKED IN EIAS BAY THREE LIYES LOST. HONGKONG, August 8. (Received August 9, at 1.15 p.m.) Three dead and eight survivors were picked up by a Customs vessel in Bias Bay from a wrecked seaplane, which was flying to Swatow with a crew of four and seven passengers. The pilot and passengers were Americans, and the others Chinese. MID-AIR COLLISION PILOT BURNED TO DEATH. BRISBANE, August 8. Two Gipsy Moth aeroplanes engaged in an air race collided at an altitude of 200 ft to-day. One crashed in Rocklea Show Ground and caught fire, the pilot, Duncan Ferguson, aged 35, being in* cinerated. The other plane, although seriously damaged by the impact, was brought down safely at Archerfield aerodrome by the pilot, William Hill, who is suffering greatly from shock, but was not injured.