PICCARD CRASHES
Flight to Stratosphere (Received 19, 1.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 18. A message from Rochester, Minneapolis, states that Professor Piccard took off for tho stratosphere. His aircraft, however, was destroyed by lire but Dr. Piccard is reported as urinjurecL The flaming aircraft crashed on a billside after attaining an altitude of 13,000 feet. The instruments were saved. Dr. Piccard asserted that the fiiglit was cxperimentally successful and proved conclusively the feasibility of his 2000 balloon plan. His face and hands were scratched in his swdft descent through a pateh of trees in order to avoid plungiug into the Mississippi river. Dr. Piccard in teiulw to make a secoud cxperimentul flight bofore attempting the record.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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