IN THE AIR

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 67, 16 October 1930, Page 5

IN THE AIR

R.A.F. Fatalities FOUR ARE REPORTED IN RECENT CRASHES. TERRIBLE TULL SO FAR THIS YEAR. Press Association—Copy. .„ .u (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. Four were killed in Royal Air Force crahes —two when a training machine crashed at Grantham, and (wo in a crash at Malta, The total Air Force deaths in 1930 are now fifty-five, compared 'with forty-five for the whole of last year. HILLS PROGRESS, (Received 9.30 a.m.) SINGAPORE, October 15. Hill has arrived and is leaving for Sourabaya to-morrow. MRS MILLER’S FLIGHT. (Received 12.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 15. A message from Albuquerque states that Mrs Miller took off for Winslow, Arizona, at 2.21 p.m. WESTRALIAN CRASH.

PERTH, October 15

The story of the aeroplane crash in which three were killed was told by a farm worker to-day.

He said he saw Nesbitt’s machine flying low. He heard a loud noise some distance away but did not atribute it to the plane falling. A search party found evidence that the machine had s truck a tree top and crashed heavily on a wooded hill within two miles of a splendid landing ground. Air experts express the opinion that the engine must have failed, causing the crash. The three bodies were shockingly mutilated' and lying in a heap with the engine on top of them.

SMITH AND MATTHEWS.

ALLAHABAD, October 14. Wing-Commander Kingsford Smith had an uneventful flight from England. He overhauled his engine this afternoon and is leaving for Rangoon to-morrow morning. He intends stopping at Singapore, Sourabaya, Timor arid Darwin, thus completing the trip in eleven days. Captain Matthews to-day left Weltevreden for Sourabaya. STORY OF OSCAR GARDEN. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Oscar Garden, the aviator reported as having left the Croydon aerodrome for Australia, formerly lived at Riccartori but for the past year has been in Sydney. Before going to England in February he announced his intention of learning to fly in England, and his last letter to relatives told of his experiences in learning to fly at the 'Norwich Aero Club.