FLYING TRAGEDIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 246, 16 September 1929, Page 7

FLYING TRAGEDIES

CRASHES OVERSEAS. NUMBER OF FATALITIES. ’PLANES DESTROYED. (United Press Association—Bl Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Service.) Received September 16, 9.10 a.m. VANCOUVER, Sept. 15. Altogether 16 were killed in aeroplane accidents on Saturday afternoon. At Chicago Messrs. Walter Mayers and Jack Crone ascended from a private airfield with two ’planes, Mr Mayers with one woman passenger and Mr Crone with two. They were joyriding at an altitude of 1000 feet when the ’planes collided. All five were killed. At San Francisco, two frends were flying in a hired ’piano. Tho machine fell into a residence, and in the resulting fire the ’plane and house were burnt. The pilots perished in the flames. . . At Wichita, Kansas, Miss Helen Williams, a stenographer, fell 2000 feet, in the presence of a great number of spectators. Miss Williams leaped from a ’plane to demonstrate the safety of a special parachute. The parachute, however, failed to open.

SIGHT-SEEING MACHINE. CRASH ~IN ONTARIO. (Australian Press Association.) NEW YORK. Sept. 14. A message from St. Catherine’s, Ontario, states that six persons—a woman, a child and four men —were killed when a sight-seeing aeroplane crashed near there to-night.

* CREW BURNT TO DEATH. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept. 15. A military bombing ’plane crashed while performing night exercises at Courvitle, France. A lieutenant and three non-commissioned officers were burnt to death.