AEROPLANE TRAGEDY.
BODIES OF THE VICTIMS.
(Australian Press Association). VANCOUVER, Sept. 9.
All the eight bodies of the victims of the New Mexico aeroplane tragedy were thought into the town of Grant on litters between horses. The bodies of the women were so severely’burnt as to be unrecognisable. The 'plane first hit the top of a pine tree 60 feet from the ground. The left motor struck the tree, then the ’plane reeled against the face of a t'oeky precipice, swung sideways, and for another hundred feet the air-liner plunged, breaking off many trees and literally uprooting others. The debris lay scattered over an area of 150 feet square. There was evidence of a gasoline explosion, several trees being seared by scorching flames. Every piston was torn from one of the engines, and a steel cabin was melted down by the intense heat. The passengers were all hurled together into the front of the cabin when the crash came. Drenching rain probably prevented a serious forest fire following the explosion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 241, 10 September 1929, Page 7
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170AEROPLANE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 241, 10 September 1929, Page 7
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