HENDON TRAGEDY
TWO AIRMEN KILLED CRASH IN ROYAL ENCLOSURE (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)
(Recd October 12, at noon) LONDON, October 12.
Crashing into the Royal enclosure, from which the King watches the annual air pageant at Hendon, an Air Force aeroplane buried itself deep into the ground. The two occupants, Pilot-Lieut. Somervell and MechanicCorporal Loud, were killed. The crash occurred a few yards from the Sultan of Muscat, in whose honour the Air Force was giving a display. Five types of bombers flying past at one hundred miles per hour, at a height of two hundred feet, when the tail of Somervell’s machine detached itself and the machine nose-dived. Loud jumped from the machine at a height of 150 feet. The Sultan,- who was robed in red and gold and was wearing a green turban, jumped up, stretched out his arms and cried out in horror. Likewise, the horror-stricken bandmaster started a gay tune, and drowned the cries while the ambulance removed the bodies and the crowd departed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1928, Page 7
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