AIR DISASTER
DUTCH ’PLANE CRASHES. FOURTEEN KILLED. MISHAP NEAR CROYDON. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 10, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 9. A K.L.AI. ait'diner bound for Amsterdam crashed in flames in a street at Purloy, 13 miles from London, a few minutes after leaving Croydon. It is officially reported that fourteen are dead and three injured. Three died in hospital. Tho survivors include a passenger named Sehuberk, the stewardess, and tile wireless operator. Tho machine was delayed by fog and started on improved weather reports. It crashed close to the spot where an Imperial Airways ’plane crashed in August, and damaged the roof's or two houses before it stopped on the roof of an empty one, which was quickly ablaze, the flames spreading to two adjoining houses. Tho ’piano burned so fiercely that would-be rescuers wore unable to gel within twenty yards. Two fire engines eventually extinguished the fire. The occupants were removed to hospital severely burnt. Ten bodies were taken to the mortuary. The passengers included Senor La Cierva, the inventor of the autogyro, and Admiral Lindmann, a former Premier of Sweden. Their deaths are reported.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 9
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189AIR DISASTER Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 9
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