The machine in which Mr and Mrs James Mollison had just taken off at dawn at the start of their flight to New York came to grief on Croydon Aerodrome just after the take off - the machine suddenly lost height and crashed on to the ground breaking both under wings and the propeller and tearing the engines away - both Mr and Mrs Millison are heartbroken at the delay to the start of their flight - photo shows Mr and Mrs Mollison standing despondently amid the wreckage of their machine after the crash June 8th 1933