AVIATION.
■ 1 ANOTHER CRASH. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 4, 9.45 a.m. PARIS, Aug. 3. An aviation fatality, in similar circumstances to that cabled on July 31, occurred at Bordeaux, when. Captain Pinsolle crashed in the street, and was carried dead to his own home nearby. Beth crashes were due to flying too low and striking electric wires.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn.
, .. . CHICAGO, Aug. 3. \Y iliiani Blauchfielcl, the veteran fiver, was killed when flying low in advance of a funeral to drop flowers on a comrade’s grave. The ’plane got out of control, nose-dived, and struck a house. An explosion followed.—Sydney Sun Cables. THE AMERICANS. Received Aug. 4. 11.15 a.m LONDON, Aug. 3. The American world flyers, Smith and Wade, started for Iceland in ideal weather. Wade descended 115 miles off the Orkneys.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The American flyer Smith has reached Iceland.—'Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 August 1924, Page 9
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