KILLED IN AMERICA
BARON AND LADY PLUNKET PLANE CRASHES IN FOG Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, February 25. .Baron and Lady Plunket and the pilot were killed and another passenger was seriously injured when one of Mr Hearst’s fleet of private planes crashed on his San Simeon, ranch. Baron and Lady Plunket were visiting Mr Hearst. The accident occurred when the plane was groping through deuse fog to make a landing. Baron and Lady Plunket were' burned to death inside the cabin. The pilot was thrown clear of the wreckage. Baron and Lady Plunket arrived last Tuesday aboard the liner Queen Mary. They were on their way to Mr Hearst’s ranch from Los Angeles when the pilot became lost in fog, which had been blanketing the coast since yesterday. The plane crashed a mile and a-half south of Hearst’s airport. Mr James Lawrence, Baron Pluhket’s travelling companion, was injured. He is a son of Sir Walter Lawrence, of London. He suffered a double fracture of the ankle and severe burns. The pilot, T. J. Phillips, was employed by Mr Hearst.
[Baron Plunket was a son of the sth Baron Plunket who was Governor of New Zealand from 1904 t0.1910.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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199KILLED IN AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 15
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