AN AIRMAN KILLED

Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1929, Page 5

AN AIRMAN KILLED

FALL IN NEW YORK CITY

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this flay at 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. _ 20

Falling into a tailspin at eight thousand feet, a plane crashed in one of the busiest intersections of the city at Broadway and Sixtyfourth Streets.

Flying Instructor Charles Reid, who never left the controls. was killed instantly, but his pupil Robert Baillie made a safe parachute jump from a height of three thousand feet and landed on. a building on the opposite side of the street front the ’plane, which crashed on the top ot a new four-storey structure with a terrific impact. Thousands of people immediately gathered at the scene, necessitating the police to draw lines to keep back the curious.

Baillie said“Wo were up about eight thousand feet when the engine spluttered and went dead. V e fell into a tail spin but Reid brought it out. We went into another tailspin and 1 became frightened. Reid motioned to me to jump and 1 cliimbed out on the wing and when we got about three thousand feet let go, believing he would follow me. Tie apparently tried to make for Central Park hut the ’plane refused to come out of the spin and crashed into the building. I was horror stricken floating down, watching the ’plane carry my friend to what must he certain death. It seemed to he long after the ’plane crashed before 1 landed.’’