AIR LINER CRASHES.
TWO PASSENGERS AND FOUR OF CREW KILLED. TRAPPED IN BURNING MACHINE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 14 Seven British passengers are believed to have been aboard a Dutch air liner whilch crashed at the aerodrome here. Two passengers and four of the crew were killed and thirteen of the passengers and one of the crew were saved.
The plane took off for Mnlmoe aerodrome and developed engine trouble and returned when she crashed and caught fire. Six of those dead were trapped and burned to’ death. The door of the cabin 'burst open at the moment of the crash and two women were among those saved. The door of the crew's cockpit jammed. Both of the dead passengers are British, their names being Hobson and Newman. A Swedish survivor says: “A wing collided with a dyke. I and the others, including four Englishmen, managed to jump just as the fire broke out in the forepart. ’' The machine was a four-engined Fokker, one of the biggest passenger* planes in the world.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1935, Page 5
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