AIR TRAGEDIES.

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1929, Page 5

AIR TRAGEDIES.

IN N.S. WALES. ' Moth Hits Tree Top. J (Australian & fI.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received February 11 at 8.50 pm.) SYDNEY, February 10. A Gypsy Moth Ip’ane, gravelling Irom Melbourne to Sydney < crashed near Goulburn to-day. > The occupants Were Captain Cornish (owner) and Mr G. K. Wride. Both were .killed. . They had landed at Goulburn for breakfast, and were -advised- not .to continue tho flight, owing to low clouds making flying dangerous, -as the locality is heavily timbered. It is surmised that they struck a frte top. The plane jyas seen to crash y the driver of a passing train, which stopped. Men rushed to the scene, and extricated the two airmen rom the wreckage. One was already dead, and the other died in a few minutes. IJuth the deceased were motor trad- ' A. Wride was an employee of DaiCo. a member of the Aero Club, H. E. Appieyard, was about to land at -tho Mascot aerodrome to-day, when he nosedived from two hundred feet. Th e machine crashed, and Appleyard suffered a fractured skull. This' is the first accident of the kind. He was giving the plane a trial prior to aking up a lady passenger. Appleyard died in the hospital several hours later. One of the first to reach the plane, which was smashed beyond repair. was Flight Lieut Ulin.