WRECK OF PLANE FOUND
HIT TREE ON MOUNTAINSIDE EKINS’ BODY HUDDLED IN COCKPIT POPULAR VICTORIAN FLIERS’ FATE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Melbourne, June 19. Searchers have located Mr. Joseph Ekins’ aeroplane with its nose deeply buried in the side of a mountain at Tallaroo. The machine was upside down with Mr. Ekins’ body huddled in the cockpit with terrible injuries to the head. A portion of one wing was high in a. tree and the remnants of the other wing were in adjoining trees. It is believed that owing to bad visibility Mr, Eking was flying low, hit a tall tree on the mountainside and crashed.
Mr. Ekins, who was a respected member of the Civil Aviation Department, left Melbourne under bad flying conditions several days ago. His disappearance was a parallel with that ol the air liner Southern Cloud which recently was lost in the same area between Melbourne and Albury.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1931, Page 9
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