’PLANE CRASH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1932, Page 5

’PLANE CRASH

PILOT AND PASSENGERS KILLED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) \ 1 LONDON, 28th July. The ’plane crash in which Bruce, the twenty-one year old son of Mr Alfred Bossorm Conservative member foi Maidstone lost his life and all his passengers perished, occurred near Churt not far from the houses of Mr Lloyd George and Lord Sq'owdon.' The bodies were widely separated when found several hundred feet from the wreckage, and were so mutilated as to be only identifiable by articles in the pockets Only a few soldiers and pedestrians witnessed the accident-. An officer of !he border regiment saw the plane emerge from the clouds “like a flying bedstead.” He was horrified to see the 'usehige break up, and bodies fall, fol lowed by the petrol tank. Mrs Bossom often went for flights with her son.

Prince Otto Erbach Fuerstenau, aged 23 years, was making his first visit to England. It is believed that the l crash was due (o lightning striking the ’plane Bossom’g ambition was to break the record from South Africa to Australia across the Atlantic He narrowly escaped death in May 1931, when he crashed in Cheshire and his machine- took