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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948.

NORTHOLT PLANE DISASTER

RAF Transport Collides With Skymaster PO B.I. E&A

SIR EDWARD GENT AMONG 39 VICTIMS

London, July 4. Sir Edward Gent, the High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, was killed today when a York plane of the Royal Air ForceTM Transport Command, on which he was travelling, crashed in flames near Northolt Aerodrome after amid-air collision with a Swedish Skymaster. The second plane also crashed and both planes were burnt out. The Air Ministry said tonight that there were eight

passengers and crew on board the York plane, including Sir Edward, and that all were dead. A total of 39 people were tonight believed killed.

Eyewitnesses of the accident told tonight of how they crashed in-flamos, making it impossiblo to approach them until fire brigades had been

at work.

The planes. crashed within ʼn which would give an identifieni quarter of a mile of each other tion for the Passengers.

in wooded country near Nor-, The weather in the London

thalt Aerodrome, on the north-jurea western outskirts of London. with

The collision took place above

a hospital and visitors who hád

thin afternoon was, misty, frequent showers of rain.

Flying Low

lined up out-side waiting for A resident of the area sair

buses watched in horror as the that two planes went sercamine

to Ivity the ground in flames,

t.

The British European Air

told Reutor tonight that waya the plane with which the York wes in collision was thought

he heard a plane

low over his house.

fying

It

seemed to be trouble, and al most immediately there, wAS terrific explosion, followed another smaller explosion.

"Friends of mine who saw, tha

by

The Skymaster crashed only a few yards from a form. It was completely burnt out although fremer pumped huge quantities | of water from the hydrants out- side:

Brigadier Usman Killed

London," July. 4.

The death in motion In Kashmir of Brigadier Vaman, the North Africa and..Burma, veteran, was announcad to- night by the Indian Minia- try of Defence, New Delhi Radio reported..

His; body-will be brought- to New Delhi, where he will be given a military funeral. Brigadier Usman, who was

a Moslem, wse`prominent in the early Bahting In Kashmir last December and January. -Reutar.

1935, a Companion of St. Michael Sir Edward Gent was born in fand St. George in 1941, and, 'a' 1805. He served in Flanders and Knight Commander. In the Vic- wall's Light Infantry in the 1914- Italy with the Duke of Corntory' Honours List.

1018 War, gaining the DSO and

the MC.

*

After the war, he entered the Colonial Service and became an expert on Far Eastern affairs. From 1942 fa 1948,, he was Aa- sistant Under-Secretary of State- and was then appointed Gover- nor and commander-in-Chief of the Malayan Union.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation tonight said that 37 bodies had been recovered from the wreck- ages of the two planes which col- lided...in mid-air. Lear-Northolt Aerodrome earlier today-Reu- ter:

̄RA.F. Casualties

Malta, July 4.. The Royal Air Force here to- In January, 1948, the Malayan day announced the following voiced, and. Sir Edward was ap- Union Order in Council was re- names of the crew of the RAF York plane which crashed at pointed High Commissioner for Northolt airport: the Federation of Malaya.

Не was aworn in at Kuala to be a DC-6, a larger vesalen plane, said seemed to disin- Lumpur on February 2, 1948. He was made an Officer of the Or- of the Skymaster. It belonged tegrate in mid-air," he added,

Airways "A large part of the plane alder of the British to the Scandinavian

Empire in wystem, which is jointly run by cleared the end house in -Sweden, Norway and Denmark.road before it fell to the ground."

Fifteen bodles have brèn ̈re- moved from the Scandinavian

The York plane was or- 10 have 33

inally reported,

Crash In Woods

this

-Another resident in the same area of Northwood; where 'the Beandinavlari plane crashed. said; was standing in my terden and heard planès over. head. Suddenly there was a deafening crash. I could not see anything because of the low. raincloude.

"A moment later I saw a plane

to the ground., It dis-

witness. soid

Flight Lieutenant C. R. Coates; Flying-Ofeer F. Momrie; Flight Lieutenant W. Trofman; Sighaller A. G.. Lewis, Flight Engineer I Rees; Flight Lieutenant C. Inglesy.

Associated Press.

Leaders Revolt In Democratic Party

Washington, July 3.

Eighteen. big-name Democrats, including James Roosevelt and Mayor William O'Dwyer of Now York, today came out. for Dwight D. Eisenhower as the party's 1948 Presidential nomineo.

passengers and crew. on board.

The York had been circling round Northolt for about an hour but had been unable to land because of bad visibility. Several Government offcla]5, "in-/ eluding Mr. W. A. Ward, Agent-crash for Malaya, had arrived at appeared in the woods a few Northolt to receive Sir Edward yards from my house and then Gent.

there was a blinding sheet 01 flame. T and several people in the house rushed through the

to where the plane had. woods The Scandinavian plane had crashed, but it was impossible to hown from Stockholm and get near.

They called a national "draft | refuse the call to duty," It did heat Copenhagen. There are believed

was terrific. The Eisenhower" meeting in Phila- not mention Eisenhower by name, to have been 25 passengers

{plane

was a crumpled mass, and delphia for July 10-two days but made it plain he was the mari board an

and a crew of seven. here was no sign of any of the before, the opening of the De-in mind. The Scandinavith plane crash passengers. ed in woods at Northwood, Mid-

Apother

that mocratie National Convention. Besides the lato --President dlesex, a few yards from a roa:l. when he first saw the plane, it The move came as "Gen Ike" Roosevelt's eldest son and Mayor The York plane crashed in woods seemed to be diving in a corka-was under heavy pressure to is-O'Dwyer, others who signed the near Hareheld.

crew fashion. A short distance sue a final yes or no on the ques- telegram included: Cheater Bow- The two planes collided almost from the ground, it straightened tion of his availability.

|les, former price administrator; immediately

The anti-Truman Decrats in Chicago Democratic leader Jacob Mount out and then crashed nose first. Vernon Hospital. Pieces of

a-telegram to party members call- Arvey; Senator Listor Hill.of wreckage were scattered all over

R.A.F. York

ed the Philadelphia raeeting to Alabama; Governor Beauford the hospital grounds and roofs,

select the "ablest and strongest Jester of Texas: Governor Ben T. in the area resident

Bald

At 0.00 p.m. G.MT, 28 bodies man available" and to build a Laney of Arkansas; Governor J. tonight that. there

only hnd been recovered from the platform. "to justify our draft of Strom Thurmond of South Caro- about a quarter of a mile be- Skymaster and four from the such a candidate."

Lina, and Mayor Hubert Humph The telegram sald "no man can rits of Minneapolis. United Press. tween the places at which the York transport.

planes had crashed.

The crashed RAF aircraft was The fire brigades fighting the an Air Transport Command flaming wreckage of the York York No. 248. It had flown from Transport Command aircraft Malta. It had left Britain 01) were hampered as the nearest June 24, reached Singapore about water was two miles way from June 27, went to several places where it had crashed,

in India, and on its return touch- ed down at Habbaniya, Iraq.

A

two

above the

was

Ambulances and special squads of police were sent from towns nearby. When the, Aames had been overcome, the bodies wefe brought out.

Police and airline officials searched the area for papers

2

A Colonial Offiça apokeaman told Reuter tonight: "Go far as we know, there was no 'meITI - ber of the Malayan Admin- istration or of gif "Edward Gent's family on the plane."

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