PILOT INCINERATED

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 154, 9 July 1934, Page 5

PILOT INCINERATED

WHEN PLANE CRASHES FROM 100 FEET By Telegraph —Copyright-Assn. SYDNEY, July 8. fwo aerodrome accidents, one of which was attended by fatal results, occurred at Al ascot this afternoon. A machine belonging to Sir Charles Kingsford e imth’s air service while taking off collided with another plane. It was badly damaged, but the occupants were uninjured beyond sh<.cK. The machine was being piloted by a pupil pilot and collided with a plane which had landed and was turning it’ take oil: again. The other aeroplane was slightly damaged. The victim of the second accident was Reginald Annabel, aged 32, and married, a re.’.’dent of Sydney. Tue plane was a Gi).sy Moth, “The Spirit of Fun Junior. ’ The pilot was near the. tep cf a loop 100 feet from the ground when the engine stalled and the machine ■'.vent into a spin aad crashed. The machine caught fire and the pilot was burnt to death. Mr. L. Phipps, ground engineer, was going tc refuel another plane, when he was struck by a piece of wreckage from Annabel’s machine and injured. — i i— * BRITISH BOMBER OVERTURNS , IN COURSE OF LANDING LONDON, July 6. The ‘ Fl’ing Dustbin,” as the Royal Air Foice has nicknamed the now Hart night-bomber owing to its curiously shaped gun-turret, crashed into a hedge while landing from a night flight. Tbe machine overturned and Sergeant RoL n&on, the second pilot, was killed. The remainder of the crew of four were injured.