TOLL OP THE AIR.
DISASTERS TO AVIATORS. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. June 22, 5.5 p.m.) New York, June 21. Ensign Billingsley fell from a height of sixteen hundred feet in the air into Chesapeake Bay. His body was not found. Lieutenant Towers, a passenger, clung to the machine, and wa ( s carried under the surface, but tosb again, and was rescued in a state of nervous collapse. The machine overturned in mid-air, throwing Billingsley out. WORKMAN'S FATAL NEGLECT, CAUSES AN AERO DISASTER. London, June'2o. The Aero Club's committee found that Lieutenant Arthule's accident was due to faulty repairs by an unconscientious or incompetent workman. DOUBLE lIERO FATALITY. Berlin, June 19. An aviator named Kraftel, while flyine with, a passenger at Johannistlial, fell, and both were killed.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1783, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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126TOLL OP THE AIR. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1783, 23 June 1913, Page 5
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