LOSS OF AIR LINER
CAUSE OF DEATH OF VICTIMS NOT DUE TO LIGHTNING Cnlted Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright THE HAGUE, January 4, Mr Plesman, manager of the Dutch Air Line, returned by air with the Commissioners who inquired into the disaster to the flying hotel. He says that though the first medical examination of the victims suggested that lightning caused the deaths, the Commissioners now reported that the victims were killed by the crash in which their necks were broken. The cause of the accident is still unknown. The machine was in good flying condition; there were no engine delects or constructional faults. The plane, after landing in the desert, when flying at 150 miles an hour, traversed 100 yards, and then overturned. The aeroplane must have struck the ground, risen again, and crashed 100 yards further on. and was destroyed. The victims were killed after the crash, the fall breaking their necks.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20000, 7 January 1935, Page 5
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153LOSS OF AIR LINER Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20000, 7 January 1935, Page 5
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