TASMAN FLIGHTS

Grey River Argus, 3 May 1934, Page 5

TASMAN FLIGHTS

TWO IN A WEEK Codock and Ulm (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, May 2. Squadron-Leader White, weather permitting, will fly the newly-built Codock aeroplane to New Zealand from Sydney, on Saturday next. ULM’S GOODWILL VISIT. (Received May 2 at 9.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 2. Mr C. P. Ulm again to tackle Tasman Sea in his plane Faith in Australia’’ next Wednesday. when, weather permitting. he wiil fly to Neu Zeaki: d from Richmond, taking goodwill messages from the Governor-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) and the Prime Minister (Kt. Hon. J. A. Lyons) which will be in the nature of a special reply to those messages recently brought to Australia from the Forbes Government by Mr A. B. Lane, manager of the New Zealand United Press As socia tion. U in says that no mail will be carried this time, it being merely a goodwill visit. The same crew will accompany him as on the last occasion. He hopes to return to Sydney on Friday or Saturday. SMITH COMING BY SHIP SYDNEY. May 2. By the liner Monterey, which left to-day, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Lady Smith, are passengers. They are on route for America, where Sir C. KingsHord Smith will negotiate for an aeroplane in which he will oompete in the Melbourne centenary race. R.A.F. Tragedy TOUR KILLED IN COLLISION ONE A NEW ZEALANDER. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON. May J. A Bulldog fighter, piloted i;y I’light-Lieutenant Joseph Seymour Tanner, wth Flight-Cadet John Aicken Plugge, of Taupiri. a Ne.\ Zealander, as a passenger, collided in mid air at Cranwell with a Hail bomber. piloted by Fly'ng-Oflicer Dennis John Douthwaite, with FlightCadet John Askell Rutherford as n passenger. All were killed. The planes were engaged in flying train'ng. Parachutes were not is sued. This is the first quadruple accident since February, 1933 but th-* sixth fatal Air Force catastrophe in 1934, involv'ng 11 deaths. AUCKLAND, May 2. Plugge, killed in England, was son of Colonel A. Plugge, of Gallipoli fame. LIKE A THUNDERCLAP. (Received May 2 at 7 p.m.) LONDON. May 2. Prior to the plane crash, the occupants of a lonely farm house, a few labourers, saw one machine flying south, and another flying west. They heard a crash like a thunderclap. All of the victims were found dead in the aeroplanes. They had not had any time to utilise the parachutes. The labourers had to dodge the falling fragments of the planes. The machines when they fell made huge holes in the ground, the engines taking four hours to extricate.