THIRD TO BE KILLED
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S PILOTS [FROM OUR OWN CORRESFONpENxLa. LONDON, April 24 The third of three pilots associated with Mr. Chamberlain's flights to Germany during Czech, crisis in 193S has been killed. He was Captain*!). S. King, aged 33, of Surbiton, who, with his first officer and radio engineer, was found dead yesterday near Loch Lomond in the wreckage of an air liner of the British Airways Corporation. Search for the aeroplane had been made for 12 hours after it had failed to reach London from Perth. Captain King was co-pilot on two of Mr. Chamberlain's flights, and piloted the escort aeroplane on the third. Another pilot who flew Mr. Chamberlain to Munich in 193S was killed in a flying accident two months afterwards. Flying-Officer S. D. Slocmn, who flew an escort aeroplane on one of the Prime Minister's flights, was killed in action last month. There were no passengers in the aeroplanes found wrecked yesteruajTj which had struck the . side of a mountain. The other members of w* crew were First-Officer A). I'-. Eveleighi aged 25, and Radio-Officer J. .>•* Elliott, aged 36. <
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23662, 22 May 1940, Page 10
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