PRINCE S FLIGHT HOME.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18552, 26 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

PRINCE S FLIGHT HOME.

Journey Across Europe. DUE IN LONDON ON MONDAY. , (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received April 25, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. The Prince of Wales is due in London on April 28, by air from Marseilles. The Prince of Wales will arrive at Marseilles in the liner Rawalpindi on his return from Africa early on Friday morning. If conditions are favourable he will immediately leave by aeroplane for London. Squadron-Leader Don, who has often piloted the Prince, will be waiting for him with a machine ready with fuel. One short halt for food and fuel will be made at Le Bourget. Two other machines will act as an escort. DISASTER FOLLOWS 'PLANE. CRASH ON HOMEWARD JOURNEY, (United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph—Copyright.) CAIRO, April 23. The aeroplane which brought the Prince of Wales here from Khartoum crashed this morning when setting out on the return to Khartoum. All the occupants were killed. The aeroplane crashed over Heliopolis and the occupants, Pilot-Officer Barron and Aircraftsman Cyril David, both of No. 47 Bombing Squadron, Khartoum, were killed.

The British Air Ministry has no knowledge as to whether the machine was the one in which the Prince actually flew from Khartoum to Cairo or not. Eleven machines took part in the flight, ten of them escorting the Prince's aeroplane. In any case it appears that Pilot-Officer Barron was not the officer who piloted the machine in which the Prince flew.