AUSTRALIAN PILOT’S DEATH.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18539, 9 April 1930, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN PILOT’S DEATH.

EFFORTS TO TRACE PARENTS. (United Frees Association—By Kloctrlo Telegraph—Copyright. 1 NEW YORK, April 7. Efforts are being made in Hawaii to reach the parents of Rupert S. M’Allister, an Australian pilot, who was killed in an aeroplane crash here. The aviator, who had been in the United States for eleven years and had done flying for a moving picture company, had latterly been a regular pilot for the Back Aircraft Corporation, Vannuys, California, and had flown here with Worden Hunter, president of the concern. The aeroplane crashed on Roosevelt Field on Friday night, following their return from a nearby Connecticut town.

The ’plane was burned and the bodies of the victims were extricated with difficulty. A representative of the Back Company here states that they have been unable to determine M’Alliser’s Australian address, but it is believed that the aviator’s father is a station owner, although his initials are unknown. M’Allister had said that his parents were at Honolulu at this time, en route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with the latter, while the body is held, in the local mortuary.