BLAZING PLANES
FALL ON ICE IN FINLAND
United Proßß Association.—By Electn* Telegraph—Copyright).
HELSINGFORS, March 26
During a demonstration of military formation flying, which, was watched by seven thousand people on the ice, near the Sverborg fortress, two planes when looping the loop at a height of two thousand feet, collided and burst into flames. Blazing fragments of the machines were scattered by high winds, while the planes themselves interlocked and fell on the ice. .Lieut. Artola, and Flying Master Saldman were killed. The crowd rushed to the blazing planes, and the ice then cracked ominously. The police and the military drove them back.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1931, Page 6
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103BLAZING PLANES Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1931, Page 6
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