OSTEND AIR DISASTER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9

OSTEND AIR DISASTER

AS&KJI au JL juii MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED U VD PILOT STAYED UP LITTLE LONGER [fruited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy rich tl (Received 18th November, 10.30 a.m.) j LONDON, 17th November. | The owners o£ the Belgian airliner in j a statement said that had the pilot. stayed up a few seconds longer the J crash would have been avoided, as the aerodrome had decided to advise tlm j 'plane to continue to London without j picking up the intending passengers at Ostend. At the moment the wireless operator was about to transmit the message the ’plane signalled it was coming down. Prince Louis of Hesse and his bride j left for Ostend after their wedding. i Mis Majesty sent a message of sympathy to the new Grand Duke of I-lesse. There was a twelfth victim in the Belgian air disaster, states the “Daily Sketch.” A child was prematurely born to the Grand Duchess as the ’plane crashed. The correct name of Freiherr Eisen- j bach is Baron von Riedesel zu Eisen-' bach. He was a member of the Grand j Duke’s entourage and was to have been j best man at the wedding of the Grand ! Duke’s brother in London.