AEROPLANE DISASTERS
TRANSPORT ’PLANE ( RASHES TEN PERSONS KILLED Received Mav 25. 11.5 p.m. CLEVELAND. May 25. A transport ’plane, en route from Aew lork to Los Angeles, crashed and was burned in a wooded area eight miles from here. Seven passengers and the crew of three were killed. None of those aboard survived. All the bodies were removed from the wreckage and were so badly charred that recognition was impossible ano identification is expected to be difficult. At the time of the crash the ’plane was within three miles of the landing at Cleveland airport and w&» already visible from the control tower. The cause has not been established, but spectators said that only on-_ motor was operating and was spittin,. tire. Accounts arc conflicting whether the machine caught tiro betore the crash. Flares littering the ground ji» the vicinity of the scene indicated that the pilot was searching for an emergency landing. It was a sleeper 'plane and possibly some of the passengers died in their sleep. They were all men. mostly business executives. The crew included a stewardess. CRASH IN CANADA ONE KILLED, THREE INU RED. Received May 25. 11.20 p.m. PRINCE GEORGE (8.C.), May 25. One was killed and three injured in a crash of a Pacific Airways ’plane npar here. One of those injured was •» woman.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 122, 26 May 1938, Page 7
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