CRASH AT AIR PAGEANT
SULTAN HORRIFIED. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service,) (Received 12.48 p.m.) LONDON, October 12. Crashing in the Royal enclosure from which the King watches the annual air pageant at Hendon, an Air Force aeroplane buried itself into the ground. The two occupants Lieutenant Somerville (pilot) and Corporal Loud (mechanic) were killed. The crash occurred a He w yards from the Sultan’ of Muscat, in whose honour the force was giving a display. Five types of 'bombers were flying past at 100 miles an hour, at a height of 200 feet. The tail of Lieutenant Somerville's machine detached itself and the machine nose-dived. Corporal Loud jumped from the machine at a height of 150 feet. The Sultan, who was robed in red and gold and wearing a green turban, jumped up, stretched; out his arras and cried out in horror. The bandmaster started a gay tune and thus drowhed the cries while ambulances removed the bodies and the crowd departed.
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Northern Advocate, 12 October 1928, Page 5
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