Show SEVEN KILLED AS AIRPLANE BURNS BURNSr r fARING STATION Three Women Among Fated Passengers on French Air Union Craft AFLAME IN MIDAIR Two Explosions Follow Crash and Those in Cabin Burn to Death PENSHURST KENT Engl England Oct 2 AP Seven AP-Seven Seven persons five of them passengers met death this afternoon when a I French rEnch air all union plane en route from Paris to lo Croydon Croydon Croydon Croy- Croy don burst into flames only a few miles from its destination and crashed near here Every person aboard the great four-engine four air airliner liner was burned beyond recognition in the seething furnace The rhe nationality of the five passengers passengers passengers pas pas- was not definitely determined determined determined deter deter- mined tonight but it was vas believed that they were all English The pilot and mechanic were French Physicians stated that the charred bodies of three men and two women women wo wo- men were tal taken en from the cabin but aut the French Air All Union in Paris issued a statement saying that it was believed that there were two men and three women aboard The names of the passengers as s given out the line with the by char char- act probably correct were wele as follows Gertrude Hall lall Margaret Flora Parker L. L Hamilton and Joseph Noble oble The pilots pilot's name was Mallett and the mechanics mechanic's Bouyer The addresses however were not available DIED BEFORE CRASH At least one of the women passengers passengers passengers pas pas- was not alive when the plane struck the ground She died while the overseer of a nearby farm struggled unsuccessfully to rescue her The womans woman's terrified face could be be seen t through rough the roaring flames She was clutching her herp 1 p purse purse lse desperately Before the overseer could get to her she was the flames lames and smoke Edwar Ed fI ibs t v rs' rs et er told tela tolda ld lda a correspondent correspond mt for the Associated P Press ress ess that he s 's saw w the planes burst hurst into nto flames near the tail tan when about feet in the all air It dived to earth The crash was followed by two wo explosions and flames thirty I feet high shot into the air all envelopIng envelop- envelop in Ing ng the wreckage and makin ln i impossible impossible to rescue the passengers gers who were piled in a heap within the burning cabin The pilot was ivas thrown several feet in front of the he cockpit but also was burned to death CAUSE UNKNOWN The was and the cause of the accident had not been determined tonight The tragedy is the second cross- cross channel airplane accident in the vast past two tivo months montIls a plane en route from rom Le Bourget to Croyden crashIng crashing crash- crash Ing ng ne near r Folkestone causing the deaths of three persons and the Injury Injury In- In jury ury of nine others One American Amerian Ameri- Ameri can an was killed and six others were injured In this crash The plane was vas a sister ship to lo the plane which crashed today |