PLANE'S FATAL DIVE
CRASHED IN FLAMES (United P.A.—By Telegraph —- Copyright) Rec. 10.15 a.m. MELBOURNE, To-day. After spinning several times in the air at a height of 300 feet, a Moth airplane nose-dived and crashed at Essendon. The machine instantly burst into flames and Brian Rhodes, aged 24, the pilot, and Alfred Heaton, aged 18, his passenger, were burned to death. The flames were so fierce that the machine was almost in ashes before the spectators reached it. It was impossible to extricate the bodies of the victims until the fire died down. Rhodes was regarded as one of the cleverest pilots in Melbourne. The scene of the accident is a remote' area of grass paddocks, and 10 minutes elapsed before the people arrived.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 9
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123PLANE'S FATAL DIVE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 9
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