Four Planes Crash
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED IN AMERICA AIRMEN’S BLACK SUNDAY (United P.A. — By Telegraph—Copyright J (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LOS ANGELES, Monday. An amateur pilot, Raymond Kettenliofen, took his brother aloft in a borrowed plane, and crashed. Both were killed. The wreckage of the machine was strewn on a highway among hundreds of motorists. Chief-Instructor Christopher Evans, of the Granby Airplane Club, -was killed near Montreal while testing a new Gypsy Moth. A third Sunday accident occurred when Elmer Hobbs, pilot, and his two passeng’ers, were killed. Their plane crashed near Waukegan, Illinois. Captain Ronald Smith, a British wartime aviator, with five Germans to his credit, was killed while attempting a tailspin too near the ground.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 9
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118Four Planes Crash Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 9
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