IRISH SEA CROSSED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 920, 13 September 1910, Page 5

IRISH SEA CROSSED.

AVIATOR'S LONG FLIGHT. ENGINE BREAKS DOWN IN MID-AIR-By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrisht. . (Rec..* September 12, 11,50 p.m.) London, September 12. Mr. Robert Loraine, the well-known, actor and aviator, whose daring oversea light from Bournemouth to the Needles in a rainstorm recently attracted much attention, has biplaned. across the Irish Channel' from: Holyhead to Howth lighthouse, near Dublin, a distance of about GO miles. Unfortunately, he was not able actually to land on the Irish coast, owing to an accident to his .aeroplane. Mr. Loraine experienced flue weather, but at a "height of 3000 ; feet the engine of his machine stopped for half a minute. This was repeated later, and the engine lost power, so; that the aviator gradually descended into the. sea, at a 6pot sixty yards from the Howth lighthouse.

■',■ Mr. Loraine swam ashore, and the aeroplane, which was partly submerged, was recovered. , FALL IN A CITY. STREET. . , London, September 11. M. Parisot, an aviator, with a passenger, was aeroplaning over Paris, when the machine fell.;' It /landed on a lamppost'in' the, .street. The;', lamp-post snapped, off, and the aeroplane came to the-ground, but, luckily, M. Parisot and this companion escaped without .injury. :