FATAL CRASHES

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 22, 21 December 1929, Page 7

FATAL CRASHES

‘. ’PLANE ENGINE FAILS. ‘ FIVE MEN KILLED. TRAGEDY IN AMERICA. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Received December 21, 9.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. An aeroplane crashed in Bolling Field to-day. Five men were killed, including the Massachusetts Congressman, Mr William Kaynor. The ’plane had gained an altitude of about 300 feet when the motor failed. The machine crashed swiftly to the earth. All four passengers and the pilot died instantly. The dead included Mr Kaynor’s secretary, Captain Harry Dinger. GERMAN ’PLANE CRASHES. TWO AIRMEN KILLED. BERLIN. Dec. 19. Two German aviators, Herrn Von Schroeder and Albrecht, were killed, and the mechanic, Herr Eichentoff, was seriously injured when a postal aeroplane belonging to the Lufthansa air company crashed -to-day. The ’plane was returning from a trial mail service flight to Teneriffe. ♦ A big public reception had been arranged at Berlin for the welcome home, but the machine crashed when trying to. land in a fog at Neuruppin, thirty miles from the city. AIR FORCE DISASTER. (Times Cables). LONDON, Dec. 19. There is still no connected siory of the Royal Air Force disaster near Tunis. French officials express the opinion that the airmen lost their way in a sform, when they were sucked down by the mountain current and ran into the side of the Jeb-el-Vit mountain, which is 2500 feet high. A lonely horseman saw the wreckage at dawn and thought the airmen might be still alive. Ho tried to extricate them, but saw that they were dead. Squadron-Leader Jones-Williams and Flight-Lieutenant Jenkins were brought to Tunis this afternoon aboard a military aeroplane. French soldiers ■ stood on guard all night by the bodies. Sometimes the bodies had to be lowered by ropes in order to traverse the narrow rocky paths; at other times they were swung in rough cradles on the shoulders of gigantic Soudanese riflemen.