PRINCE’S RETURN HOME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 9

PRINCE’S RETURN HOME

A FLIGHT ACROSS FRANCE AIRMEN KILLED IN EGYPT [ British Official Wireless ] RUGBY, April 23. The Prince of Wales will arrive at J 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. SquadronLeader Don, who has often piloted the Prince, will be waiting for him with the 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. An aeroplane which was connected with the Prince’s flight from Khartoum to Cairo met with disaster when returning to Khartoum to-day. It crashed over Heliopolis add the occupants (Pilot-Officer Barron and Aircraftsman Cyril David), both of No. 47 Bombing Squadron, Khartoum, were killed. The Air Ministry has no knowledge whether the machine was the one in which the Prince actually flew from Khartoum to Cairo. Eleven machines took part in the flight, ten of the them escorting the Prince’s aeroplane. In any case, it appears that Barron was not the officer who piloted the machine ia which the Prince flew.

AT J, ON BOARD KILLED PLANE THE PRINCE USED CAIRO, April 23. The aeroplane which brought the Prince of Wales here from Khartoum crashed this morning when setting out on its return to Khartoum. All of the occupants were killed. The Prince of Wales is due in London on April 28 by air from Marseilles. CRASH IN THE BALTIC TWO AIRMEN KILLED COPENHAGEN, April 23. Two Danish airmen were d wned when forced down during a flight over the Baltic.