AIRLINER TRAGEDY
PASSENGER DISAPPEARS ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, Jan. 4. The question whether he fell or jumped has been raised in connection with the disappearance of Mr Max V. Wenner from the CologneBrussels airliner. Passengers who came to London from Brussels in another plane stated that they saw Mr Wenner write letters, put them in his pocket, and leave the compartment. Later they felt a bang and the shudder of the machine fuselage, and found the door in the floor of the luggage locker damaged. The bang, therefore, was presumably caused by the door slamming shut owing to wind pressure. The airliner was than about 3000 feet over the Meuse district.
Mr Wenner was aged about 49, and was reputed to be Wealthy. He lived at Batchcote Hall, Shropshire. His wife, to whom he was most devoted, died in July. The case recalls the disappearance of Loewenstein from a machine over the English Channel in 1928.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23081, 6 January 1937, Page 7
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