CRASH ON A MOUNTAIN
AUSTRALIAN PILOT’S DEATH BODY HUDDLED IN COCKPIT (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, June 19. (Received June 19, at 9 p.m.) Searchers located Mr Ekins’s aeroplane with its nose deeply buried in the side of a mountain at Tallarook. The machine was upside down and Mr Ekins’s body was huddled in the cockpit, with terrible injuries to the head. A portion of one wing was high up in a tree and the remnants of' the other wing were in adjoining trees. It is believed that owing to bad visibility Mr Ekins was flying low and hit a tall tree on the mountainside and crashed. He was a respected member of the Civil Aviation Department. Mr Joseph Ekins, aircraft instructor to the Civil Aviation Department, was reported missing on the 10th inst. He was flying from Melbourne to A 1 bury.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21366, 20 June 1931, Page 11
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