FOUR, FLIERS KILLED.
CRASH ON A MOUNTAIN. SEEKING FOR LOST MAN. Australian and N.Z. Pie3s Association. (Received October 21. 5.-15 p.m.) VANCOUVER. Oct. 23. An air pilot and three deputy sheriffs were either killed instantly or burned, when a piano in which they were flying crashed on tho northern slope of ono of the Santa Catalina mountains. The machine burst into flames and the four bodies wero burned beyond recognition. The men were members of a party which was searching for William Hyatt, who disappeared on Sunday while he was hunting Within an hour of the finding <">f the four bodies Hyatt reappeared. He had been lost in the hills and was hungry, but. he was not injured. He saw the plane flying and witnessed the trash a mile away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20086, 25 October 1928, Page 13
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