Another Plane Crash
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in New Guinea Passengers and Crew Killed
AN Avro Anson aircraft, owned and operated by Guinea Air Traders of Lae, New Guinea, crashed in the Wampit Valley on March 1 and the four occupants lost their lives. This is the second air fatality in the Morobe area within recent months.
Those who lost their lives were: Cap tain R. G. Peters, pilot; Mr. P.
Wheatherston, engineer; Mr. F. J. Purvis, whose adress was given as Sydney, and Mr. B. Turner of Port Moresby.
Guinea Air Traders is a comparatively new air company but Captain Peters (who was a nephew of Territories Min ister Ward) flew with Guinea Airways for some years.
The plane left Lae for Bulolo on the afternoon of March 1, and when it did not arrive at its destination, an air search was made. The wrecked plane was located in the Upper Wampit but it took some days for a ground party to reach it.
On January 30, a Dragon plane be longing to Mandated Airlines crashed near Garoka on the Central Highlands and the pilot Mr. D. G. Tapsall, was killed.
Miss Amy Thompson, of the Melan esian Mission, who has given fine ser vice in both Solomons and New Guinea, has had to resign because of ill health.