AEROPLANE DISASTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21775, 14 October 1932, Page 9

AEROPLANE DISASTER

I CRASH NEAR GRANTHAM NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED. LONDON, October 12. Two New Zealanders —Flight-lieu-tenant Harold Claude Marett and Act-ing-pilot-officer Adrian Kinross White—pilot and passenger respectively of the Air Force Training School, Grantham, were killed instantly when a plane suddenly got into a spin and nose-dived. White jumped over when near the earth. The parachute did not open. Marett was caught in the debris of the machine, which killed a sheep as it crashed. WORD RECEIVED IN NAPIER. (Per United Press Association.) NAPIER, October IS. News of the death of their son, Act-ing-pilot-officer Adrian Kinross White, in an aeroplane crash over the village of Great Ponton, near Grantham, England, has been received by Mr and Mrs W. Kinross White, of Napier. THE BYRON BAY CRASH. CORONER’S VERDICT. SYDNEY, October 13. At an inquiry into the deaths of Holden, Dr Hamilton, and Virtue the coroner found that they died as the result of injuries received in a plane crash, the cause of which was .unknown. One of the worst aeroplane accidents in the history of Australia occurred on Septembr 18 on. the north coast, in the vicinity of Bungalow and Byron Bay, three leading aviators being killed when a Puss Moth machine crashed 1000 feet on to the side of a mountain. The victims were Leslie Holden, Dr George R. Hamilton, and Ralph Virtue.