’PLANE CRASHES

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 7

’PLANE CRASHES

MACHINE BURNED.. AUSTRALIAN AVIATOR KILLED. EFFORT TO LOCATE PARENTS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.) Received April 8, 9.35 a.m. NEW YORK, April .7. Efforts are being made in Hawaii to reach the parents of Mr Rupert, S. McAllister, an Australian pilot, who was killed in an aeroplane crash here on Friday. Mr McAllister, who had been in the United States for eleven, years , and had done flying for a moving picture company, had latterly been a regular pilot for the Bach Aircraft Corporation, California, and had flown there with Mr Worden Hunter, the president of the concern. ' The aeroplane crashed on the Roosevelt Field on Friday night, following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The ’plane was burned and the bodies were extricated with difficulty. A representative of the Bach Company here stated to-day that he was unable to determine Mr McAllister’s Australian address, but it was' believed that the aviator’s father was a station owner, although Mr McAllister had said that his parents were at present at Honolulu, en route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with them. SURREY TRAGEDY. MACHINE IN FLAMES. LONDON, April 7. A German pilot and mechanic were killed when a Junker freight aeroplane flying from Croydon to Berlin crashed in Surrey. It is understood that the machine flew low to avoid clouds. The pilot misjudged his distance and struck the earth, the ’plane bursting into flames.