AEROPLANE CRASH
A DISASTER IN N.S.W. TWO OCCUPANTS KILLED SYDNEY, Dec.l . Crashing 3000 feet at Grenfell yesterday, a Westland Widgeon monoplane burst into flames and was reduced to ashes and a tangle of ironwork, while the two occupants’ bodies were so mangled that portions-were strewn over the roadway in Forbes Street. Hunderds of people watched horrorstricken the ’plane’s awful spiral dive to disaster. The pilot was Captain H. A. Young and the passenger Raymond Gilmour of Bathurst, heir to a fortune who recently purchased this machine, which, after repairs in Sydney had just been taken over by the new owner. Strangely enough, both men were in the ’plane when it met with a minor accident in the country six weeks ago which led to the Sydney repair job. The ’plane had been doing fancy turns over Grenfell yesterday when the wings suddenly seemed to fold back. The machine nose-dived and struck the macadamised road surface with a terrible crash, narrowly missing three residences and some children who were playing close to the fatal spot and who had a frightful shock. Gilmour was a popular and daring car driver and while serving in the Light Horse in Egypt and Palestine in war time was noted for his daring. Captain Young served in war time a flying instructor and also did much commercial flying in Australia and New Guinea where he transported gold by ’plane. _
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 287, 3 December 1929, Page 7
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