PLANE TRAGEDY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24792, 17 December 1941, Page 6

PLANE TRAGEDY

CRASH INTO HILLSIDE FOUR AIRMEN KILLED rP.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 16. Four members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were killed early this afternoon when an aircraft returning from a training flight to "the Wigram station crashed into a hillside at Motukarara. a little south of Christchurch. • ' It is believed that the pilot, who wai flying in heavx rain, and•: low.clouds, last his -bearings. The crew arid' ♦heir next-of-kin are as Pilot Officer Allan Leslie Marshall: mother. Mrs Edna Sophie Marshall, 3T Marama terrace, Birkenhead, Auckland. Leading Aircraftman WillUnT ton Lindsay; mother, Mrs Jessie Lindsay, 112 Hutt road, Petone, Wellington. . Leading ' Aircraftman Ronald Stephen Brooker; father, Mr S. C. Tererika street; Rotohia. Leadinjr Aircraftman Brian Patrick Fitzgerald; mother, Mrs* Nora/ Eileen Fitzgerald. 121-Elizabeth street. Riccartbn, Christchurch.

SECOND MACHINE MISSING TOUR MEN ON BOARD (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 1«. An aircraft of the R.N.ZA.F. wai reported missing last night while engaged on operational exercises from Nelson. ' 1 . The occupants of the -machine were: Pilot Officer Alexander John Macfarlane (mother, Mrs W. Macfarlane, Nelson), Pilot Officer Louis George Volzke (mother, Mrs M. M. Volzke, Ngaere, Taranaki). Aircraftman Philip David Harrison (father, Mr E. Harrison, Lower Hutt), and . Aircraftman Keith Robertson Jack (next-of-kin his mother, Mrs W. R. Jack, Levin). <■.-: