SIX KILLED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23196, 16 November 1938, Page 14

SIX KILLED

DUTCH AIR CRASH WINGS TORN OFF PASSENGERS INJURED TWO NEW ZEALANDEBS By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received November 15, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 15 Two passengers and four members of tho crew were killed, when a K.L.M. Douglas DC3 monoplane flying from Berlin crashed in a fog and drizzle at tlio Schipol acrodromo. The passengers who were killed were both German women. All the other passengers were injured, three seriously. The five-year-old daughter of one of tho Gorman women, however, was found wandering unhurt after the crash. The passengers in the machine included four British people, two Czechs, eight Germans, some of whom

were Jewish refugees, and a New Zealander, ,who is believed to be a Mrs. Clayton. She was seriously injured. According to the Daily Sketch another New Zealander was injured. This passenger is Dr. W. A. Fairclough, an eye specialist from Auckland. The machine came in on the radio beam and struck a ditch in which the left wing was torn off. Then it taxied on one wheel across the field, striking a second ditch where tha other wing was torn off, and ran a further 400 yards beforo stopping in the ditch. The dead and injured were scattered across the field and two were found jammed in the wreckage of the tail. The Jewish passengers had arrived in Amsterdam in the morning after their expulsion from Germany. They were not permitted to stay and were put on the first aeroplane returning to Berlin, where they were again expelled by aeroplane to Holland. It was this machine that crashed. A cablegram received late last night by Mrs. Fairclough stated that Dr. lairclough was suffering from purely minor injuries. t xt: i • One of the leading ophthalmic surgeons of New Zealand, Dr. W. A. Fairclough lives at 1216 Remuera Road, Auckland. He is a married man, with two sons. He left for Sydney by the Mariposa on September 30 and new from Sydney to England. Dr. Fairclough intended to visit hospitals and clinics in London, and then to make a similar tour of Germany and other parts of Europe. It was his plan to be back in New Zealand early in the new year. , , ' • Dr. Fairclough graduated at the University of Otago in 1905. He is senior ophthalmic surgeon to both the Auckland Hospital and the Mater Misericordiao Hospital, and is chairman of the ophthalmic section of the PanPacific Surgical Congress. A special study has been made by Dr. Fairclough of the cinema in relation to medicine and surgery, and he is recognised as an authority on the subject. He is also a member of tlio council of the Auckland Institute and Museum, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society.