AVIATION ACCIDENTS.
THREE PLANES LOST.
TWELVE PEOPLE PERISH. CRASH INTO MOUNTAIN. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel, Copyright. (Received Dec. 26, 9.35 a.m.). VANCOUVER, Dec. 24. Twelve deaths, the result of aeroplane accidents, marred the Christmas festivities. A Floyd De Long machine disappeared in the rugged country between Elko (Nevada) and Mountain City. Aboard were three children who had visited Elko to participate in the funeral of a school chum. Rescue planes found all dead where the plane had crashed on a hillside in snowclad country. Mr Russel Riggs, veteran air mail pilot," crashed on a mountainside during a snowstorm in the Tennessee mountains.
'Hope is abandoned for the seven occupants of another aeroplane which fell into a gulf in California between Mazatlan and La Paz. The dead include Dr. Spacho, the engineer for the construction of the great ocean pier at La Paz.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 7
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