AVIATION FATALITY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17913, 8 January 1930, Page 7

AVIATION FATALITY.

MACHINE RAISED. BODIEB NOT RECOVERED. DIVERS ABANDON SEARCH. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright. MELBOURNE, Jan. 7. The wreckage of the Waokett Widgeon machine, which crashed in Port Philip Bay with the loss of three lives, was raised to-day. Divers searched the spot, but finally abandoned the taskThe aeroplane was a battered, tangled mass held together merely by the bracing wires. The late Captain Grosvenor was the only son of the second Baron Stalbridge and therefore heir to the barony. LONDON, Jan. G. Captain Hugh Grosvenor, who was killed in the flying tragedy at Melbourne, was only 25 years of age. He was a brilliant amateur jockey, and rode much in steeplechases before he left England for Australia, and twice competed In the Grand National. He took up flying after he arrived in Australia in 1928, and bought a De Havllland Moth aeroplane. Last summer he flew- round Australia, a distance -of 8000 miles, in 31 days. His attempt to fly to England was to have been made in about ten days’ time, and he hoped to lower Captain Kingsford Smith’s record of 13 days for the journey.

LATER. TRIBUTES IN PRESS. LOVED TO FACE DANGER. VALIANT AND UNSELFISH YOUTH. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—-Copyright. (Received Jan. 8, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. The Daily Express, in an editorial entitled “A Gallant Youth,” says of Cap. H, Grosvenor: ‘‘Not length of life matters but what amount of highspirited adventure is crowded in. Captain Grosvenor rode in the Grand National twice, was equally adventurous in the hunting field, was a hard-hitting boxer, and completed an 8000 mile trip round Australia in a _ light ’plane. That is the stuff, thank God, of which Britons aare still made.” The Daily Mail, in a similar editorial entitled ‘‘A Noble Example,” says: ‘‘Captaain Grosvenor was a man who loved to face danger. He was proverbial for his daring. Such examples prove that the youths of the post-war generation are as valiant and unselfish as soldiers were in the trenches.”

AIRMAN INJURED. , CRASHED INTO HAYSTACK. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright MELBOURNE, Jan. 7. Flying-Officer Leo Ryan, who was attached to the Australian Air Force, died to-day from injuries he received when his aeroplane crashed into a haystack at Laverton >on Sunday.