AERIAL TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 May 1929, Page 5

AERIAL TRAGEDIES

AMERICAN PLANES CRASH

SEVEN LIVES LOST

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' (Recd; May 14, 10 a.m. LOS ANGELES, May 13.

Raymond. Kettenhofen, an amateur pilot, took his brother aloft in a borrowed plane. He crashed and both were killed. The wreckage of the plane was strewn over the highway amoiigst hundreds of motorists. Chief Instructor Christopher Evans of the Granby Aeroplane Club, was killed near’ Montreal while testing a new gypsy Moth. The third Sunday accident occurred when Elmer Hobbs, pilot and two passengers, were killed when the plane crashed near Waukegan, Illinois. Captain Ronald Smith, British war time aviator, with five Germans to his credit, was killed while attempting to tail spin too near the ground. INTERNATIONAL SERVICES

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LONDON, May 13.

“Important extensions in trans-Con-tinerital air services are included in the forthcoming summer timetables. These will amplify and accelerate London’s aerial communications with Europe Asia, Africa and South America,” says the, “Daily Mail’s” aviation correspondent. “European air line chiefs, working in conjunction, are now concentrating on the development of nigtyt flying, for which beacons marking the main routes will guide the planes to aerodromes that will be lit by million candle power floodlights. They have also gained much knowledge from the success of the Anglo-Indian air route iat present in operation with ever-in-creasing loads of mails, which have almost doubled since it was inaugurated. “The Luft-Hansa Coy is inaugurating a third London-Berlin daily service, enabling passengers to leave London in the afternoon and arrive at Templshofer by night time. They are placing three-engined sleeper planes on their routes, and are plying from Moscow to Madrid. Later on, Seville will be made an air port for GermanSpanish trans-Atlantic airship mail. The Luft-Hansa Coy is also linking Moscow by way of Teheran and Baghdad with the London-Karachi service.”

FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

SINGAPORE, May 13

Moir and Owen arrived at noon after an uneventful flight from Singora. A propellor was slightly damaged. They are leaving for Java to-morrow.

AUSTRALIAN PILOTS.

SYDNEY, May 14.

Upwards of one hundred and forty pilots have been trained by the Australian Air Force since the w r ar ended. It is now proposed to create an air force organisation at Canberra.

CHINESE EXPLOIT.

SHANGHAI, May 13.

Captain Chenwenlin arrived at Amoy, piloting an Avro-Avian twoengined aeroplane from England. A tumultuous welcome was accorded the aviator on the occasion of the greatest long-distance flight in Chinese history. The flight from Croydon occupied two months.

ZEPPELIN FLIGHT.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, May 13.

Sir H. G. Wilkins, who will be a passenger on the Graf Zeppelin, which leaves on Wednesday on the TransAtlantic flight, hopes to return to London within a month.