FATAL AIR CRASH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 257, 13 October 1932, Page 7

FATAL AIR CRASH

NEW ZEALANDER KILLED MB. ADRIAN KINROSS WHITE ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND Private advice has been received that Pilot-Officer Adrian Kinross White, son of W. Kinross White, Omaranui, Napier, was killed in a flying accident near Grantham, England, yesterday. Pilot-Officer White passed his “A” pilot’s test as a pupil of the H.B. & E.C. Aero Club, on May 28, 1930, securing his endorsed license the following year. He was one of the club’s most capable pilots, and was very popular with everyone. He promised to have a brilliant career in the Air Force. He left New Zealand to join the R.A.F. just after last Easter, He was educated at Wanganui College, and was prominent in all forms of sport at school. He was aged 23. To. Mr. and Mrs. Kinross White the deepest sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended in the loss they have sustained. DETAILS OF*SMASH. (United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 13, 1.35 p.m.) London, October 13. Two New Zealanders, Flight-Lieuten-ant Harold Claude Marett, and Acting Pilot-Officer Adrian Kinross-White, of the Air Force training school at Grantham, were killed instantly when their ’plane suddenly got into a spin and nose-dived. White jumped out near the earth, but his parachute did not open. Marett crashed in*the debris of the machine, which killed a sheep as it crashed. ' FAMOUS FLIERS KILLED. CORONER’S VERDICT ISSUED. United Press Association—By CableCopyright.) (Received 13, 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, Oct. 13. At the inquiry into the deaths of Holden, Hamilton and Virtue, the Coroner found that they died as a result of injuries received in a ’plane crash, the cause of which was unknown. One of the worst aeroplane accidents occurred on September 18 on the north coast in the vicinity of Bangalow and Byron Bay, near Sydney. Three leading aviators were killed when a Puss Moth machine crashed from 1000 feet to a mountain side. The victims were Leslie Holden, Dr. George R. Hamilton and Ralph Virtue. The bodies were mutilated. Holden and Hamilton, in the air liner Canberra, found the lost Southern Cross with the KingsfordSmith and Ulm party in north-western Australia a few years ago. Holden was afterwards associated with the aerial party which searched for Anderson and Hitchcock, who 'perished in Central Australia while looking for the Southern Cross. Hamilton was an expert aerial photographer and Virtue an experienced A pilot employed by New England Airways, which conducts an aerial passenger and mail service between Sydney and Lismore. The aeroplane was piloted by Virtue. Details of the crash indicated that the pilot must have been flying blind owing to the bad weather and emerged from the clouds and mist. They parsed over a ridge five miles beyond Bangalow and apparently struck a tree and a wing fell off. A desperate attempt was made to right the machine, which somersaulted into the valley and was wrecked.