ACROSS THE ALPS.
UNLUCKY END TO A DARING FLIGHT. Bj Telosraph—Press Association—Copyright. Berne, September 23. M- Chavez, the aviator, started from Brigue (Switzerland), and crossed the Simplon Pass to Domo d'Ossola, twenty miles away in Piedmont, Italy, in fifty minutes. .-' • A, gust of wind caught his machine, which fell,' the aviator being injured and pinned beneath the motor. ■ - M. Chavez, was on the point' of comipleting his flight when the accident occurred. . He was not awaro that a violent wind was blowing in the lower altitudes, and Assayed a descent by planing, his machine being upset. , ' , / Both his legs, were broken.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 931, 26 September 1910, Page 7
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101ACROSS THE ALPS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 931, 26 September 1910, Page 7
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