AIR LINER LOST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 16

AIR LINER LOST

; UTAH ACCIDENT CRASH ON MOUNTAIN 19 PERSONS ON BOARD ALL BELIEVED KILLED / _ By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received October 10, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 18 An air liner hound from San Francisco to Salt Lake City crashed on the steep, wooded side of a mountain in Utah. Fears are entertained for the fate of the 10 persons on board. The machine was completely wrecked. The scene is accessible only by horseback. A rescuo expedition has been organised. After flying over the wreckage observers said they were convinced that all the occupants, who included four women, were dead. The crash occurred at an altitude of 10,000 ft., the aeroplane apparently falling through trees. It is thought that it would have cleared the ridge if it had been Hying lOOi't. higher. If all tho occupants are found to have been killed it will bo tho worst crash in tho history of the United States. COLLISIONS IN AIR THREE LIVES LOST ACCIDENT IN CANADA OTTAWA, Oct. 18 A telegram from Trenton, Ontario, states that three members of the Hoy a I Air Force were killed there to-day in a .mid-air collision. • v Lieutenant Maelnncs and Sergeant O'Connor, of Ottawa, in one aeroplane, collided with a pupil, .Robert Doucette, who was flying alone. Tho locked machines fell 1000 feet to the earth, CASE AT OSTEND BELGIAN FLIER KILLED OSTEND, Oct. 18 Passengers who had just landed at Ostend from the Channel boat from Dover were horrified to see'a Belgian Air Force flier crash into tho harbour near by, his parachute entangled in tho machine. Ho was dashed with fatal effect against the wall of the dock. The other occupant of the aeroplane parachuted to safety among houses on the outskirts of. Ostend. The accident was due to tho aeroplane grazing another machine in midair.- The second machine lauded safely.