CRASH INTO HOUSE.

Western Star, 2 August 1938, Page 3

CRASH INTO HOUSE.

PILOTLESS PLANE ' CLOSE CALL FOR OCCUPANTS After a- Royal Air Force pilot - had lumped with his parachute from an aeroolane which had run out of petrol five, members of a .family had- remarkable escapes from death when th e _ machine Ploughed its way v through their house -'nmpletolv destroying five bedrooms and' a box room.- >• . , , The crash occurred at High Yedman--lale Farm, Ayton, near Scarborough, m Yorkshire. . , ' . Pilot-flight-cadet Michael Savage, o. Oranwelb, landed safely with his parachute about a mile away. He had deeded to jump when, on his petrol running out, he could find no place to bring his machine down. ' The farm is occupied by Mr Alber Stonehouse, who was asleep in the only undamaged room. “I rushed out tc hnd the aeroplane wheels on the staircase n.nd the axle on the front landing, lie. declared. His son, who was in a bedroom .u" which only a small portion of the ceiling was left intact, stated: “I heard a ’-n.ng, and was , out of the . room m e ’’ash.” ■ , Mrs Stonehouse . and two daughters owe their, escape to the fact that they '-ad stayed up late talking around a fire. The mother told a reporter: -We should- have been sleeping directly in the path of the machine, and our bedroom was cut in half. We have had a providential- escape from death.” ,