Passengers Incinerated In 'Plane Crash

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7285, 12 October 1933, Page 7

Passengers Incinerated In 'Plane Crash

CRAFT WRECKED IN MID-AIR BY EXPLOSION Received Wednesday, 11 p.m. CHICAGO, Oct. 11. Seven wore killed when a trans-con-tinental passenger aeroplane crashed in flames near Chesterton (Indiana). r lhc craft was wrecked in mid-air by an explosion and it could be seen shooting earthwards like a blazing comet. Eye-witnesses attempting to reach the occupants were driven back by sheets of flame. They could hear the victims’ death cries. The plane was en route to New York from Chicago. The bodies, including those of two women, were charred beyond recognition. Machine Has to Make Forced Landing ADELAIDE PASSENGER INJURED Received Wednesday, 7.50 p.m. PERTH, Oct. 11. A. trans-continental mail plane, with 13 passengers for Adelaide, had to make a forced landing after taking oh from Perth, and one was seriously hurt, namely Mr. A. G. Price, a member of the South Australian Slock Exchange, who was proceeding homeward after completing the purchase of a Mount Jackson mine. The mishap was duo to the breaking .of the propellers, fragments of which damaged the stays and fuselage and necessitated a forced landing in a cabbage patch, which was successfully managed, although tiio undercarriage was severely damaged when it collided with a fence.

Pilot Baker is praised for liis coolness and skill in preventing a more serious accidont. He later took off a Telief piano with all tire original passengers, except Mr. Price, whose arm was fractured.