Tributes to O’Hara

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 7

Tributes to O’Hara

EVERYBODY LIKED HIM. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 10.50 p.m. SYDNEY, May 25. Many graceful tributes to O’liara are paid by leading airmen in Sydney, among whom tho Sun’s aviation writer, who described him as a most likeable and friendly airman, ever ready to do a good turn and incapable of illwill. He was always genial aud everyone at Mascot liked him. Probably this friendliness led to his undoing. He would have leaned away from the instrument board waving out aud as he climbed the air speed would slip back and before ho was aware of it, the ’plane would have come to a critical stalling angle where there was no longer sufficient dying speed for the lift and when the aileron control goes and tk - machine falls. Ho would struggle to flatten out but withal, bo too near the ground to regain control. Then would come the crash.

The Union Bank and Shell Company are handling arrangements Ou behalf of O’Hara’s relatives in New Zealand. It is expected the body will be takeu to New Zealand for burial.

Complete Wreck SYDNEY, May 23. The engine stalling is believed to bo the cause of Mr O’Hara's 'plane taking the nose dive. This machine was completely destroyed, even the aluminium parts of the engine being reduced to small heaps of powder resembling powdered chalk. A number of lantern views of New Zealand scenes were found about fifteen feet from the wreckage. The Air Investigation Committee has sent a special representative to the scene. *