Passenger’s Body Missing: An aeroplane flying at a great height over Hampshire was seen to break into five parts. In the main wreckage the pilot, Lieutenant 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 Basingstoke Canal and all the ponds in the neighbourhood were dragged, but there was no sign of Pinsent’s body. At the inquest on Lieutenant Lutyens on Saturday, three days after the accident, the mystery was still unsolved.
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GRO0163 Devonport: David Hume Pinsent: 1891 – 1918