AIR LINER CRASH
INQUIRY IN PROGRESS (Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 12., Evidence of further witnesses in connection with the fatal crash of the Union Airways Lockheed airliner Kotare at Mangere on Tuesday was heard to-day by Squadronleader Olson, officer commanding the Royal New Zealand Air Force base at Hobsonville. The preliminary inquiry will be extended over the next two or three days, after which the evidence will be collated by Squadron-leader Olson in the form of a report to the Minister in Charge of the Air Department (Mr F. Jones). The wreckage of the Kotare was removed from the scene of the crash on the property of Mrs Roussel and taken to Union Airways headquarters at Mangere, The starboard engine, which stopped shortly after the take-off prior to the crash, has been taken to Hobsonville for examination by engineering experts. Although damaged extensively, the motor will be completely taken down and each part examined minutely in an endeavour to determine the cause of it stopping. The Auckland-Wellington service is at present being carried on by Union Airways with the two remaining Lockheeds, the Kuaka and the Kereru. Each of the machines is valued in the vicinity of £15,000. No arrangements have yet been announced for replacing the wrecked Electra, as it is possible to run the present service with two machines.
FUNERAL OF MR W. J. PEEL HASTINGS, May 12. Representatives of nearly every sporting body in Napier and members of many other organisations attended the funeral at the Parke Island cemetery to-day of William John Peel, who was killed in the aeroplane crash at Mangere. The services at St. John’s Cathedral and at the graveside were conducted by the Rev. R. Gardiner. The pallbearers were Commander A. G. Gerrand (Union Airways), Captain W. Mcßride (Ist Hawke’s Bay Regiment), Messrs R. S. Munro (St. John Ambulance Brigade), V. J. Rouse (Technical College Old Boys), E. N. H. Stewart (Napier Aero Club), and Sergeant I. McLennan (machine-gun unit, Hawke’s Bay Regiment). A firing party from the Ist Battalion of the Hawke’s Bay Regiment fired three volleys at the graveside. A Moth aeroplane from the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club, piloted by Instructor E. F. Harvie, flew over the funeral at the cemetery.
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Evening Star, Issue 22956, 13 May 1938, Page 1
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375AIR LINER CRASH Evening Star, Issue 22956, 13 May 1938, Page 1
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