ELEVEN KILLED
AIRLINER CRASHES DISASTER IN GERMANY BERLIN, Feb. .1. When a Deruluft airliner was flying from Danzig to Berlin the pilot attempted to land owing to bad visibility, and the aeroplane crashed near Stettin. All the occupants were killed—one woman, seven men passengers, aud the ciew of three. The crash is attributed to the formation of ice on the wings and wireless aeiial during a blizzard. The pilot lost his way and was unable to get his position by wireless. His last wifeless message to Stettin said that the aerial was being slowly covered with ice. Tho machine crashed into a hillside a-quartcr of an hour later. SNOW AND DARKNESS CAUSE OF THE DISASTER Received Feb. 3. 6.30 p.m. BERLIN, Feb. 2. The Deruluft victims include! Baron Marschall von Bieberstcin, leader of the Airsport Association, and the pilot, Hermann Westphal, who had flown a million kilometres on this route. Snow and darkness obliterated all landmarks, and the iner burnt lor throe hours before the victims could be extricated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 7
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