COLLISION BETWEEN AEROPLANES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1936, Page 3

COLLISION BETWEEN AEROPLANES.

ONE CRASHES IN STREET. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) MUNICH, Feb. (5. Two single-seater military aeroplanes collided 4000 feet above the city, both pilots parachuting to safety. One machine fell on the museum and then into the street. It broke through the tramway cables, just missing a tram smashed shop windows, which were set on fire, and killed three pedestrians and injured two others.

The crash caused a panic in the streets, some people shouting that a bomb had fallen. The crash shortcircuited an electric cable, causing several hours’ dislocation of the tram service.

The other machine fell harmlessly in a suburb.

Death-roll Reaches Four

INFORMATION AS TO INJURED HARD TO OBTAIN.

Keceived Friday, ,S p.m. MUNICH, Feb. 7,

The death-roll has reached four, including a woman. All the victims were I,urned to death. The woman’s burning and mutilated body was found in a beer hall opposite, while the flames caught the overcoats of throe men leaving the beer hall, causing fatal injuries.

The number injured is believed to be much higher than the authorities so far admit. Five people sitting near a window in the beer hall were injured bv living wreckage. Parts of the engine flew through a window of a neighbouring flat, wrecked the room and just missed a sleeping child. Fhop girls were injured by fragments of the glass as the machine hit a shop window and then lay blazing on the pavement.

The police warned everyone in Mic vicinity not to give information, nndet pain of imprisonment.