AIRLINER DISASTER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 249, 20 October 1937, Page 7

AIRLINER DISASTER

Worst In American History WRECKAGE ON MOUNTAIN (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 19, 10.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 18. An airliner, en route from San Francisco to Salt Lake, has been reported to have been sighted, crashed on Utah Mountain. The fate of the 19 people on board is feared. Inspection from the air confirmed that the vessel was completely smashed up on the side of a steep wooded mountainside in Utah, accessible only on horseback. An expedition was immediately organised. After flying over the wreckage the observers declared that they were convinced that all the occupants, including four women, were dead. The mishap occurred at 10,000 feet, the ’plane apparently crashing through the trees. The opinion is expressed that the machine would have cleared the ridge if it had been flying a hundred feet higher.

It will be the worst crash in the history of the United States if all are killed. BELGIAN ’PLANE CRASH AT OSTEND COLLISION IN MID-AIR. Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. OSTEND, Oct. 18. Passengers who had just landed from the Dover-Ostend channel boat were horrified to see a Belgian Air Force ’plane crash in the harbour nearby. The pilot's parachute became entangled in the machine and he was dashed fatally against the dock wall. The other ocupant came down safely by parachute amqng the houses on the outskirts of OsteVid. The accident was due to the 'plane grazing another in mid-air. The second machine landed safely.