WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH
TRAPPED IN FALLEN PLANE CRASH IN A FORCED LANDING HIGH TENSION WIRE STRUCK AMERICAN TOURING EUROPE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Jan. 5. An American airwoman, Miss Evelyn Frost, touring Europe by air, was unable to escape, despite her desperate struggles, and was burned to death when her Moth plane, piloted by an Englishman, Mr. Geoffrey Ruddle, struck a high tension wire during a forced landing in fog at Nevers. The plane crashed to the ground and caught fire. Mr. Ruddle was able to unfasten his safety belt and was not seriously injured. Mr. Ruddle, interviewed in hospital, said he was looking for a landing place when the crash occurred. The next thing he remembered was lying on the ground. Flames were enveloping the machine, and he was burned in endeavouring to extricate Miss Frost. Miss Frost is a relative of the former American Ambassador to London.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1934, Page 7
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