AVIATION

Grey River Argus, 19 September 1932, Page 6

AVIATION

COLLISION ACCIDENTS Italian Tragedy (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received September IS at 7 pan.) LONDON September 17. 1 Two out of nine Royal Air Force ■ machines were Hying in formation n< ui Folkstonc when they collided. One was wrecked, but the pilot parachuted five thousand feet and was not hurt. ROME, September 17. ; At Spenzie, seven members of the i Italian Air Force were killed in a col j lisipn. between flying boats, which crashed into the sea. Most of th e victims were drowned. A launch rescued one, who was injured. FRENCH PLANE TRAGEDY. LONDON, September 17. When trying to find the Croydon ' Aerodrome in a fog, a French Air Union freight aeroplane crashed at the Hotel Harden, a few miles away. The pilot jwas killed, and the mechanic was in- - Ijured.

Three Germans Missing ON SEARCH FOR HUTCHINSONS ANGMAGSALIK September 17. There are grave fears for the safety of the German fli'ir, Udet, and his two companions, who took off in a search for fhe Hutchinsons on September 14tb. They have* not sinc 0 been reported. SIBERIAN AIR MAIL. MOSCOW, Sept. 1(5. A new air service linking Moscow with Vladivostok is being opened next month with nine Soviet manufactured passenger aeroplanes, equipped for night flying. The journey will take two days, compared with the present eight by train. R.A.F. TRAGEDY. SINGAPORE, Sept. 16. A flying boat belonging to the R.A.F. base at Singapore sank. The pilot and two members of the crew were but tjie vthers were trapped inside the wreckage and they were drowned, despite desperate efforts on the part of the survivors to release them.