CRASH IN ENGLAND
FOUR PEOPLE KILLED NOSE-DIVE INTO FIELD ENGINE EMBEDDED IN EARTH By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 30, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 29 An aeroplane en route from Heston to Paris nose-dived near Seven Oaks, Kent, and ths engine was embedded a depth of two feet in a field. The four occupants of the machine, who included a mother and daughter, were killed. Portions of the aeroplane were scattered over an area of a mile. Mr. F. Garrett Reed, one of the victims, was his widowed mother's second son to be killed in an air accident. This is the 17th crash in British civil aviation in 1934, a total which has involved 27 deaths. PREVIOUS TRAGEDY AN INQUIRY ORDERED REFUELLING AEROPLANE LONDON. Sept. 28 The Air Ministry has ordered an inquiry into the disaster to the aeroplane Youth of New Zealand, which crashed with the loss of four lives after refuelling the machine of Sir Alan Cobham prior to his abortive attempt to fly non-stop to India.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21919, 1 October 1934, Page 9
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