DEATH OF FLIER “PRESUMED”
FORT PHILLIP AWi TRAGEDY.
DECISION OF PROBATE COURT. By Te.egraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. London, May 6. The Probate Court has granted an application to presume the death of Captain Hugh Grosvenor, one of the victims of the aeroplane crash at Port Phillip. The wreckage of the Wakett-Vvidgeon 11. plane, which crashed into Port Phillip Bay on January 9 and killed Captain the Hon. Hugh Grosvenor, A.D.C. to the South Australian Governor, Flight-Lieutenant F. A. Briggs, R.A.F., and D. C. Ewen, a leading aircraftsman at the Point Cook flying school, was found by a launch which visited the scene, and a flying jacket was recovered which apparently belonged to one of the occupants. The flying boat was raised to the surface but there was no trace of the three victims. Divers searched the spot and finally abandoned the task. The Widgeon was a battered, tangled mass held together merely by the bracing wires. Captain Grosvenor was the only son of the second Baron Stalbridge, and therefore was heir to the barony.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1930, Page 9
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