Victims of Air Crash

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 48, 26 February 1938, Page 5

Victims of Air Crash

BARON AND LADY PLUNKETT TCTT iT iPi'l'l United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Baron and Lady Plunkett and a pilot were killed and another passenger was seriously injured when one of Mr. William Randolph Hearst’s fleet of private planes crashed on his San Simeon ranch. The Plunkets were visiting Mr. Hearst. The accident occurred when the plane was groping through dense fog to make a landing. The Plunkets were burned to death inside the cabin. The pilot was thrown clear of the wreckage. Baron and Lady Plunket arrived la3t Tuesday aboard the liner Queen Mary. They were on their way to Hearst’s ranch from Los Angeles when the piiut became lost in a fog which had been blanketing the coast since yesterday. The ’plane crashed a mile and a-half south of Hearst Airport. James Lawrence, Plunket’s travelling companion, was injured. He is a son of Sir Walter Lawrence, of London. He suffered a double fracture of the ankle and severe burns. The pilot, T. J. Phillips, was employed by Hearst. PLANES COLLIDE IN MID-AIR Received Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 25. Two Air Force planes collided in midair off Spithead. One crashed into the sea and there is no trace of the pilot or wreckage. The other landed safely. SEARCH RESUMED AT DAWN Received Friday, 11.48 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 25. Planes from seven R.A.F. stations resumed the search for the missing ’plane at dawn, concentrating on an area from Northumberland to Aberdeenshire and coastwise.