FATAL NOSE-DIVE BY MOTH AEROPLANE
DEATH OF PfLOT AND PASSENGER
PLANE BU HNS FIERCELY.
HKLSCIIJEBH POWEBLEfcS. ,
(Received! 10. Id a .in.) MELBOURNE; This Day. I After spinning several times in the [air at a height of throe thounind feet ■a. Moth aeroplane nose-dived and crashed at Essendon. The machine instantly burst into f!}vines, and Brian Rhodes, 24, pilot, a\nd Alfred Heaton, IS, ■ passenger, were burnt to death. The liain.es were so fierce that tho mabbino was almost in ashes beforq tlio spectators reached it-. It was impossible tot extricate tho bodies of tho victims until the. lira died; down. Rhodes was regarded as one of tho cleverest pilots in tho Melbourne sw* tiqn of the Aero Club. The scene of the accident was .in remote grass paddocks and ten, minute's elapsed before people ai 1 1 vcd Australian Press Assn.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 8, 27 December 1928, Page 5
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