AERIAL TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1933, Page 11

AERIAL TRAGEDIES

FOUR CRUSHED TO DEATH.

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(Recd. October 30, 2 p.m.) WESTBORD (Massachusetts), October 29.

Three men and one woman were crushed to death when their cabin airplane crashed on a farm near the local airport. The plane nose-dived from a height of 500 feet.

FATAL COLLISION.

AMARILLO (Texas), October 29.

Three members of an air circus troupe were killed and a fourth injured critically, when two planes collided and crashed’, at the edge of the business district here. ULM REACHES SYDNEY.

SYDNEY, October 29.

Ulm and his companions, Taylor and Allen, landed at Mascot on Saturday at 3.10 p.m. from Broken Hill. There was a good crowd to greet them, including Sir C. Kingsford Smith, who was the first to shake hands with his old flying pal. Ulm said: “We are very glad to be home again. We had no idea of recordbreaking when we left England. We merely wished to demonstrate the manner in which the EnglandAustralia mail route can be flown.”

FLIGHT ACROSS TASMASJ.

SYDNEY, October 30.

Ulm iterated his intention of flying to New Zealand in the “Faith of Australia,” leaving in a few weeks. He will undertake a programme of commercial flights in the Dominion. Ulm also intends competing in the Melbourne centenary air race.

CENTENARY RACE.

LONDON, October 28.

The “Evening Standard” deplores the loss of the mail carrier plane on October 24, as it was the only machine thus far built in Britain embodying a requisite range and speed to enable a reasonable chance of winning the London-Melbourne race. The only other comparable British machine is the mail carrier built by the Avro Company, which reached 170 miles an hour in the King’s Cup in 1932. It has now been re-engined and is expected to be capable of 200 miles an hour.

NELSON PAGEANT.

NELSON, October 28.

Nelson Aero Clu,b’s first pageant, organised with the assistance of the Wellington Club, was held to-day in perfect weather. Ten planes representing Wellington, Auckland, Western Federated', Wairarapa, Marlborough, West Coast and Canterbury clubs took part in a splendid display going off smoothly without mishap. There was a large attendance.