British Air-liner Crashes

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 65, 18 March 1937, Page 7

British Air-liner Crashes

THREE OCCUPANTS DEAD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 16. While engaged iu a night flight from Croydon to Cologne, the four-uegined Imperial Airways iiner Jupiter crashed 25 miles west of Cologne. A gale, accompanied by snow and sleet, was blowing. The news of tho disaster was convey ed to the House of Commons by the Under-Secretary for Air, who stated that the three occupants of the machine, Captain Holmes, the pilot, Mr. Langmau, wireless operator, and Mr. Wolley Dod, European manager for Imperial Airways, who was the only passenger, are dead. No mails were on board. The cause of the accident is not yet determined. The machine left Croydon last evening, and had been missing since she was reported over Brussels shortly after 11 p.m. Another airliner left Croydon this morning to fly over the route taken by the aeroplane. BERLIN, March IG. The wreckage of the Jupiter airlinoi was found burned near Memmingen, m Bavaria. The occupants were dead. APPARENTLY FORCED DOWN BY SNOWSTORM Received Wednesday, 8 p.m. COLOGNE, March 16. The wreckage of the Jupiter wu3 found by a woodcutter in the forest, who raised tho alarm. The pilot was apparently forced down by a snowstorm. The plane hit a large elm, and broken pieces of trees were set on fire.