Plane Scipio Falls in Sea Near Crete London, Aug. 22, One passenger was killed and another drowned when the Imperial Airways flying-boat Selpio, the lar-Best craft of its kind operating on the route, crashed while making an emergency landing to-day in Mirabella Gulf, Crete.
The passenger killed was Mr. P. C. A. Forbes, who was travelling from Delhi to London, while the other victim of the crash was Lieut.
Wilson-Dixon, The four members of the crew, cluding the pilot, Capt. Wileockson, and the five other passengers, were rescued, but Capt. Wileoekson sustain ed internal injuries. The rescued passengers and other members of the crew were also injured, The Sciplo was proceeding to Brin-dis from Alexandria whence it left this morning when the tragedy occurred. The flying-boat, which is a four-engined fifteen-passenger craft, developed engine trouble while flying over the island of Crete and Captain Wileoekson decided to make an emergency landing in Mirabella Gulf, The survivors of the crash owe their lives fo the fact that the Imperial Airways motor-yacht Imperia was within half a mile of the scene of the crash and her crew managed to reach the flying-boat In time to save the four members of the crew and the five passenger The Scipio was built in 1931 and her weight fully loaded was thirteen tons—Reuter, Aid Rushed 'London, Aug, 23, A fying-boat from' Malta and the [British cruiser Durban from Haifa fare rushing to Crete to help the Injured survivors of the Scipio disaster, learned to-da In a statement on the accident, Jwhich resulted In the death of two passengers—Mr. P. A. C, Forbes and Lieut. R. F. Wilson-Dixon—Imperial /Airways says that the fying-boat ws sunk by a rough sea when alighting in Mirabetia Gulf, Crete, in the normal course of her voyage.
Only "one passenger, Mr. J. M, Draught, the company adds, seriously Injured, "Others superficial cuts and brulses—Reoter.
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