FOURTEEN DEAD
Air Liner Crashes
TRAGIC SMASH IN ENGLAND
C United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrights (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 9.
fourteen are dead and three in- * jured as a result of the crash in flames of a Royal Dutch (K.L.M.) air liner in a street in Purley, a few minutes after leaving Croydon. Three of the victims died in hospital.
Survivors include a passenger named Schuberk. the stewardess and the radio operator. The machine, a Douglas (American) was delayed by fog. but started on receiving reports of improved weather. It crashed close to the spot where the Imperial Airways experimental freight plane. Vellox, came down in flames with the loss of four lives on August 10.
The Douglas damaged the roofs of two houses before it stopped on the reef of an empty one, which was quickly ablaze, the flames spreading to the two adjoining buildings.
The plane burned so fiercely that would-be rescuers were unable to get within 20 yards. Two fire engines eventually extinguished the blaze. Five occupants were sent to hospital severely burned, and 10 bodies were taken to a mortuary.
Passengers included Senor de la Cierva, inventor of the autogiro, and Admiral Lindmann, ex-premier of Sweden.
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Northern Advocate, 10 December 1936, Page 8
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