AVIATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 95, 8 April 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

FLIER’S MISSING RELATIVES

SOUGHT BY U.S. FIRM.

ENQUIRIES IN HAWAII.

(United Press Aisociation—By CableCopyright.)

(Received 8, 11.35 a.m.) New York, April 7.

Efforts are being made in Hawai' to reach the parents of Rupert 8. McAllister, an Australian pilot killed in an aeroplane crash here. The aviator, who had been in tne United States eleven years ago and had done flying for a moving picture company, had latterly been a regular pilot for the Bach Aircraft Corporation, Vannuys, California, and had Down here with Mr. Worden Hunter, president of the concern. The aeroplane crashed at Roosevelt Field on Friday night, following their return from a nearby Connecticut town. The 'plane was burned and the bodies extricated with difficulty. A representative of the Bach company here states that he is unable to determine McAllister’s Australian address, but it is believed that the aviator’s father was a station owner, although his initials are unknown. McAllister had said that his parents were at Honolulu at this time, cn route to the United States. Efforts are being made to communicate with the latter, while the body is held at the local mortuary. THE MONOCOUPE CRASH. VICTIM DIES IN HOSPITAL. (Per Preu Association.! Wellington, April 8Morris John Cameron, who crashed at Porirua yesterday when flying Mr. O. Cotterill’s monocoupe ’plane, died in Wellington Hospital yesterday without regaining consciousness. FOUR ’PLANES LEAVE HASTINGS TO TAKE PART IN HAWERA PAGEANT. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning four ’planes left the Longlands aerodrome to participate in the Hawera pageant. Miss Clifford in her Avro-Avian machine, had Mrs Richmond as passenger, and took off in formation flight with Captain Mercer, who had Mr. Taylor as passenger, Captain Stedman, with Mrs Stedman as passenger, and Mr. Dix and Miss Bennett in the Marlborough ’plane. They propose flying first to Foxton, then back to Feilding, where they will stay to-night, proceeding to Hawera to-morrow morning. After the Hawera pageant they will leave for the Auckland pageant. Miss Clifford will have as passenger from Hawera to Auckland the ground engineer from the Canterbury Club.