AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 6

AVIATION

IN THE AIR. PARACHUTE RECORD. onitvJ Prexa AMoeiataun -Jtiy fileotrut Telegraph— Copyright) v (Received this day at 10.15 a. 111.) RIGA, August 4. Lieut. Peterson claims a European record for a parachute descent of 2(),40o feet in fifteen minutes, in'which he drifted five miles. ’PLANE CRASHES. ROTTERDAM, August 4. ' A military ’plane crashed and the pilot and sergeant were killed. AIK LINER CRASHES. AMSTERDAM, August 4. /The Dutch . air liner crashed at a pignal and was destroyed, senVf.isly injuring a boy playing in a field and five women passengers. ’PLANE -CATCHES FIRE. OBSERVER KILLED. PRAGUE, August 4. Flying at six thousand feet, a heavy bombing ’plane caught fire. The pilot parachuted to safety. The observer, over excited, opened tbe parachute too early' and was. killed. The machine fell on the roof of a- distillery, which with an adjoining shop caught fire. ITALY’S AIR LOSS. ROME, August 4. It is now revealed that Monte, cabled on August 2nd., was flying one of two new Fiat machines, capable of four hundred miles an hour, and specially constructed for the Schneider Oup. Salvage efforts have proved fruitless. The machine is lying at a depth of three hundred feet. AMY JOHNSON. MAKING FOR HARBIN. LONDON, August 4. A message from Manchuli states \my Johnson flew over the RussoChinesc frontier and is making for Harbin.