Two Fliers Die As Plane Crashes Near Cochrane
Pair Instantly Killed, One Victim From U.S.
Crushed in the wreckage of their twin-engined Avro Anson bomber when it crashed into a cutbank on the Bow Valley ranch, nine miles southwest of Cochrane, late Monday afternoon, two pilots from the No. 3 Service Flying Training school at Currie Barracks were instantly killed.
They were: Sergeant Pilot Alfred Emile Reginbal, 22, of La Fleche, Sas-katchewan, whose wife resides at 719 Sixth avenue west.
Leading Aircraftsman Quentin Burl Chace, 21, of Wichita, Kansas.
Officials at the No. 3 Service Flying Training School are hoping to be able to arrange an air force funeral for the victims on Wednesday evening. Bodies of the two fliers were found at 6:30 o'clock Monday evening by Forbes Campbell, co-owner of the ranch, and his hired man, Earl Munro, who had gone to the scene to investigate a crash which they had heard an hour earlier.
STILL IN PLANE
They found Reginbal's body crushed under a motor a few yards from the principal wreckage. Chace was still strapped in his seat in the plane. Both men were dead when found, and the searchers presumed they had died immediately.
Wreckage of the plane was strewn along the river bank, with a wheel some 30 yards in front of the plane. Part of the wreckage was in the river. The plane was upside down and piled into the clay bank 20 yards from the water's edge.
Following location of the crash. Campbell and Munro hurried back to their ranch home and called Constable A. C. Kirkeberg, of the R.C.M.P., at Cochrane.
COMMANDER PRESENT
Kirkeberg immediately communicated with Calgary, then proceeded to the scene. Wing Commander A. D. Ross was notified, and he went to the scene personally. Kirkeberg, with Forbes and Jim Campbell, Earl Munro and Bill Sullivan, took flashlights and lanterns and climbed down the river bank to where the plane had crashed. Flares were placed on the highway at the gate leading to the ranch to guide the air force and ambulance crews.
From the Calgary Herald