MOTH PLANE CRASHES
AIRWOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, January 5. .- An American airwoman (Miss Evelyn Frost), who was touring Europe, was unable to escape, despite desperate struggles, and was burnt to death when her Moth plane, piloted by an Englishman named Geoffrey Ruddle, struck a high-tension wire during a forced landing in a fog at Nevers, crashed, and caught fire. Ruddle was able to unfasten his safety belt, and was not seriously injured. Ruddle, interviewed in hospital, said that he was looking for a landing place when the crash occurred. The next thing he remembered was lying on the ground with the flames enveloping the machine. He was burnt in endeavouring to extricate Miss Frost, who is a relative of a former American Ambassador.
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Southland Times, Issue 22216, 8 January 1934, Page 5
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