AIR PILOT’S DEATH
SEARCH FOR RELATIVES BELIEVED TO BE AUSTRALIANS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 8, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 7. Efforts are being nia.de in Hawaii to reach the parents of Rupert S, McAllister. an Australian pilot who was killed in an airplane crash here. The aviator, who had been in the United States for 11 years, and had done tlying for a moving picture company, had latterly been a regular pilot for the Bach Aircraft Corporation, Yannuys, California, and had flown here with Worden Hunter, president of the concern.
The airplane crashed at Roosevelt hold on Friday night, following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The plane was burned, and the bodies extricated with difficulty.
A representative of the Bach company here stales that he is unable to determine McAllister’s Australian address, but it is believed that the aviator ’s father is a station owner, although his initials are unknown. McAllister had said his parents were at Honolulu at this time, en route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with them, while the bodv is held at a local mortuary.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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