AIR DISASTERS
DUTCH NAVAL BOMBER CRASH INTO SEA FIVE PERSONS KILLED [Unitad Press Asaoelntion-Uy Electrlo Telegraph—Copy rlS'itl SINGAPORE, 17th October. Five persons were killed when a Dutch naval bomber crashed into the sea near Banda Island to-day. This is the third air crash in the East Indies in ten days. The total deaths | are eighteen. : CRASH IN UTAH MOUNTAINS 19 PEOPLE ON BOARD FEARS FOR SAFETY EXPRESSED NEW YORK, 18th October. An air liner on route from San Francisco to Salt Lake, is reported to have crashed in the Utah mountains. Fear is expressed for the safely of the 19 on board. THREE KILLED IN CANADA (Received 19th October, 12.30 p.rn.) TRENTON (Ontario), 18th October. Three Royal Air Force airmen were killed in mid-air. Lieutenant Madness and Sergeant O’Connor, of Ottawa, were the occupants of one plane, which collided with Pupil-flyer Robert Doucette, who was flying alone. The locked machines plunged 1000 feet.
FATALITY AT OSTEND BELGIAN AIR FORCE MACHINE (Received 19th October, noon) OSTEND, 18th October. Passengers who had just landed from a Dover-Ostend Channel boat were horrified to see a Belgian air force flyer crash into the harbour nearby. The pilot's parachute was entangled with the machine, which dashed against the dock wall. The pilot was killed. The other occupant parachuted safely among the houses on the outskirts of Ostend.
The accident was due to the ’plane grazing another in mid-air. The sceond machine landed safely.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 5
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