AIRMAN'S FATE
EKIN’S BODY FOUND IN COCKPIT
(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, 19lli June. Searchers located Ekin.’s airplane with its nose deeply buried in the side of a mountain at Tallarook. The machine was upside down. Ekins’s body! was huddled in the cockpit with terrible injuries to the head. * A portion of one wing of the ’plane was high up in a tree and the remnants of the other wing were in adjoining trees. It is believed that owing to bad visibility Ekins was flying low and hit a tall tree on the mountain side and crashed. , Ekins was a highly respected 'member of the Civil Aviation Department.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 June 1931, Page 6
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