THREE KILLED IN CRASH

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1930, Page 11

THREE KILLED IN CRASH

PLANE TOUCHES TREE TOPS

SUBSEQUENT CRASH UPON HILL.

BODIES SHOCKINGLY MUTILATED.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rec. 10.15 p.m. P erth ’ Oct ? The story of the aeroplane crash in which three 'were killed was told by a farm worker to-day. A Push Moth aeroplane, piloted by Captain Nesbitt, aged 33, and?carrying two flying pupils, William Bell, aged 23, and MM Haidee Rae, aged 34, set out for Northam and was later posted missing. Search by othe aeroplanes resulted'in the missing machine being located near York, bl "a6hed to pieces, and nose down in mud. The three ’occupants were dead. The farm worker told the police that he saw Nesbitt’s machine flying low. Somebody within waved to him and later he heard a loud hoise some distance away but did not attrib^ e lt the plane falling. A search party found evidence that the machine had shuck a tree top and icrashed 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.