AIR LINER CRASH

Grey River Argus, 7 November 1938, Page 7

AIR LINER CRASH

Fourteen Killed t . . .. . . . IN ENGLISH CHANNEL SERVICE. LONDON, November 4. Fourteen people, including two of the crew, were killed when a DHB6 aeroplane operating a passenger service across the Channel, crashed at Jersey. The machine took off from the Jersey airport in a thick fog/ and was attempting to return when it crashed. Eye-witnesses say that they saw smoke and flames issuing from one engine after the aeroplane took off. The machine suddenly turned and endeavoured to return, enveloped in flames. Then it crashed down, and a terrific explosion blew the passengers hundreds of feet, mutilating them beyond recognition. The pilot was A. G. M. Cary, formerely personal pilot to the Viceroy of India. , - According to the Independent Cable Service, the name of the aeroplane was St. Catherine’s Bay. The machine had almost made the boundary of the airport when it suddenly dived, narrowly missing a hotel. Airport officials and police raced, to the scene. Hundreds of people ran from their homes, but it.was impossible to approach the aeroplane because of the terrific heat. A father, mother and child and two other women were, among the victims. A business man who was due to catch the aeroplane for London arrived late at the airport, just in time to see it crash. ; ' : ’• • : Among the killed was a man working in a field six hundred yards from the airport, who was struck by the falling aeroplane.