AIR LINES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 28 March 1936, Page 7

AIR LINES

FATAL CRASH IN THE NEW FOREST

AERIAL EXERCISES WITH AIR FORCE MACHINE BELIEVED TO HAVE HIT TREETOP (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 27th March. An air liner belonging to Commercial Air Hire crashed in the New Forest near Lymlhurst. Four men and one women were killed. The victims were the pilot Captain Birmingham and his brother Wireless Operator Robert Burgess and his fiancee, Miss Daisy Marsh, and Mr Norman Burgess, a friend. The accident occurred while tlio machine was engaged in aerial exercises in co-operation with Air Force searchlight and anti-aircraft units, for which it had been specially chartered. Civil machines engaged in this work frequently carry civilian passengers. Nobody witnessed the smash, but people living in the vicinity heard a terrific noise and hurried to the scene and found all flic occupants dead.-

It is believed that the machine hit a treetop while searching for a landing place. it did not catch fire.

CRASH IN MEXICO

FOURTEEN PERSONS PERISH MEXICO CITY. 26th March. The most disastrous accident in the history of Mexican aviation occurred to-day when a tri-motored commercial transport ’plane crashed between the famous volcanoes Popocatepetl and Ixtaecihuatl, forty miles rrohi the capital. Ten German tourists and four crew members were instantly killed. Witnesses said the craft bad just left the air port and was flying low when it turned backward, the pilot evidently attempting to return to the field. Suddenly the aeroplane burst' into flames and crashed to earth at a terrific speed. The German victims included three titled persons, AdolLTrince of Scliaum-burg-Lippe, and his wife, Princess Elizabeth, and Baron von Sfeiber.