MAIL PLANE CRASHES
TWO PERSONS KILLED
ACCIDENT IN CANADA
S PECTATORS POWERLESS
(Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 19, 1.30 p.m.) REGINA, Nov. 18.
En route to Vancouver, a transCanada air mail plane crashed and burned shortly after leaving Regina airport this morning. Cantom David Imrie, the pilot, and John Herald, were burned to death. Four mounted police leaving the barracks were eye-witnesses. They staled that the engines seemed too quiet in taking off and the machine appeared to be unable to get altitude and crashed nose foremost from a height of 50ft. The petrol tank exploded, the flames enveloping the wreckage.
The spectators were unable to rescue the trapped flyers. The engines, propellers, and mail were strewn over the snow when the machine broke in two before the nose dive. Ten sacks of mail were burned. The service was inaugurated in April and had made 900 AtlanticPacific flights without having a previous accident.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19792, 21 November 1938, Page 7
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