’PLANE CRASHES ON ROOF

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1938, Page 7

’PLANE CRASHES ON ROOF

LONDON SUBURB TRAGEDY MANY KILLED AND INJURED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. September 5, 10.30 a.m.) r LONDON, September 4. 1 Four were killed and 25 injured, and T three houses were set on fire, when ) an Air Force aeroplane crashed on top t : of a residence at Edmonton. I It burst into flames, bounced on to I houses across the road, on which the I' petrol tank exploded, as the pedes■’trians scattered. | The killed were the pilot, a woman > and two children, one of whom was ■ killed on the road. , LATER. Hundreds of children, playing in a . nearby park, saw the crash. A boy, Jimmy Tant, was killed as - the machine bounced across the road, after nosediving on the roof of Tant’s house. It struck the pair of houses opposite, in one of which Saunders ‘and his family were lunching, strewing wreckage .in the garden and flinging the engine to an adjacent doorway, igniting the building and fatally burning Mrs Saunders and her son, Derek, aged eight, and severely burning the husband and two other children, also a boy scout, who had entered to give help, and neighbours who met the flame blast after rushing from their dwellings. The plane was piloted by Sergeant S. R. Morris. MORE DEATHS (Rec. Sept. 5, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 4. The crash claimed another victim in the person of an unidentified woman, who died in the hospital. Rescuers did not spare themselves in attempting to extinguish the petrolsoaked clothing of men, women and children fleeing from the inferno, blazing like torches. Edward Letch, injured in the crash succumbed at the hospital, making the sixth victim. His brother James and thirteen others are in a critical condition, including Saunders and his son Roy, whose house was completely destroyed by fire. The Callaghans were the occupants of the adjoining dwelling, which was badly damaged. LATER. John Eusden, the seventh Edmonton victim, succumbed from burns, received in saving others. The eighth victim, Roy Saunders, died later. GERMAN ACHIEVEMENT. BERLIN, September 3. A new type of aeroplane, a twoengined Siebel, alighted at Temple,hof aerodrome at 12.1 a.m., haying completed in 24 hours, with brief stops, a circuit of . London, Paris, Rome, Bucharest, Warsaw, and Stockholm, a distance of 3900 miles, at an ; average speed of 162 miles an hour. , MOSCOW-VLADIVOSTOK RECORD. MOSCOW, September 3. Flying a mail aeroplane, the Soviet , ace Tyutyaev flew from Moscow to Vladivostok and back, a distance of : 10,250 miles, in 54 hours. , U.S.A. DERBY WINNER. CLEVELAND, September 3. Miss Jacqueline Cochran, of New York, crossed the finishing line here eight hours, ten minutes, 31.4 seconds after leaving Los Angeles, to win the nine thousand dollars first prize in the thirty thousand dollar Air Derby . against nine male rivals. After pausing half an hour here, Miss Cpchran continued to Bendix (New Jersey), thus making her total winnings 12,500 dollars, of which 2500 is for being the first woman finishing and one thousand for continuing to Bendix.