AEROPLANE CRASH
PILOT AND OWNER KILLED SOUTHERN CROSS JUNIOR WRECKED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, April 12. (Received April 12, at 11.40 p.m.) The Southern Cross Junior, one of the most famous of light planes in the world, crashed 2000 feet in the dusk this evening. The pilot J. Palmer, aged 29, and the owner, Mr James (aged 30), were killed instantly. The plane was recently reconditioned after its return from New Zealand, whither Mr Guy Menzics piloted it in a sensational solo dash.
It is said by witnesses that the plane was about to loop when the upper left wing broke and fell on the lower wing. The machine sagged, went slowly into a tail spin, and fell a mile from the Mascot drome in Botany Bay in a mass of tangled wreckage in the sight of many horrified people. Willing hands soon reached the spot and dragged the men out. They were terribly injured and beyond human aid.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21308, 13 April 1931, Page 7
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