The Aeroplane Mystery: 1,200 soldiers fail to find passenger’s body: An aeroplane flying at a great height over Hampshire was seen to break into five parts. In the main wreckage the pilot, Lieut. Lutyens was found dead, but there was no trace of a civilian named Pinsent, who had been in the aeroplane with him as observer. Twelve hundred soldiers were sent to help the police search the countryside, the Canal and all the ponds in the neighbourhood were dragged, but there was no sign of Pinsent’s body. At the inquest on Lieut. Lutyens on Saturday, three days after the accident, the mystery was unsolved.
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GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918