Tragedy of the Air

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 67, 21 March 1935, Page 7

Tragedy of the Air

SEVEN PERSONS KILLED INWEST AFRICA United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. BRUSSELS, March 19. Searching a desolate spot between Brazzaville and Coquilhatville, in West Africa, a Belgian Airlines plane, piloted by M. Gillard, discovered six corpses and the shattered fragments of a three-engined aeroplane in which Edourd Kenard, Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, and his wife, and three officers, a mechanic and a wireless operator, departed from Brazzaville for Tchada c-n March 15. The victims were apparently killed instantaneously. The crash is attributed to lack of visibility following a tornado. French and Belgian planes intensively searched for four days after the parly were reported missing. Troops rowed down tho Congo and sent out native search parties guided by tomtom signals. A faint, wireless message on March 15 anounced that the aeroplane, after penetrating the tornado, was entering a fogbank. The last news was a message an hour later announcing that normal flight had been resumed. M. Kenard’s predecessor, M. Pasquier, was killed in the Emeraudc air liner crash on January 15, 1934, and his son was killed in an air crash at Clermont Ferrand in September, 1933. M. Kenard was a former Prefect of the Seine. Ho resigned with M. Chiappe after the Paris Hots on June 6, 1934. The French air liner Emeraudc crashed in France on January 15, 1934, with the loss of nine lives. SZinmmu PoPPF wrmin aomfw taoimfa