AERIAL COLLISION

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 8

AERIAL COLLISION

TRAGEDY IN AUSTRALIA. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] SYDNEY, November 19. Two aeroplanes collided at a height of 500 feet near Mascot aerodrome this morning. The occupants of both machines, four men and two women, were killed. Their names at present are not available. One of the aeroplanes, containing four joy-riders, fell in Cooks River. The other, a Gipsy Moth instructional aeroplane, with two occupants, crashed after the collision on the Bonnie Doon golf links. NAMES OF VICTIMS. .SYDNEY, November 19. The victims in the ’plane collision were: — John Jones, the pilot of the Monospar machine. William Silvertsen, aged 25. Mrs. Monica Hatswell, aged 44. Miss Edith Richardson, aged 19. James Cicutti, aged 30, the pilot of the Gipsy-Moth. Frederick Davidson, 25, Cicutti’s passenger. Both machines were preparing to land at Mascot. They were following a course along Cook’s River. When the collision occurred, the Monospar plane, with its four occupants, fell like a rocket into Cook’s River. There was considerable trouble in recovering the wrecked, submerged- machine, and in establishing identification of the' victims, all of whom were badly, injured. The Gipsy-Moth ’plane, with one wing stripped, crashed on Bonnie Doon golf course in the presence of golfers, who rushed to the scene, and dragged the occupants out, but they were beyond aid. Now it is learned that both planes were engaged on passenger flights.