FOUR ELECTROCUTED
PLANE STRIKES. POWER LINE.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
NEW YORK, April 18,
A message from Jersey City states that Count Henri Dela Valaux, President of the Aeronautique International of Paris and three other occupants of a passenger plane which was en route from Albany, New York to Newark were electrocuted when the plane struck a high tension wire. The machine was soon enveloped in flames and crashed to the ground. The pilot named Salway, during the war served with the Royal Air Force. The tragedy was watched by terror stricken spectators, and was due to „a fog restricting the visibility. One of the passengers was,.a woman. The plane, which was a / Fairchild monoplane was chartered hy Count Valaux, who had completed a four thousand mile air tour of North America. He wore evening clothes, with the ribbon of the Legion of Honour when removed from the wreckage, a proceeding which was rendered doubly difficult by darkness as the crash extinguished ail the lights of Hudson County, New Jersey.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1930, Page 6
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171FOUR ELECTROCUTED Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1930, Page 6
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