AVIATION
COLLISION IN THE AIR. JUNKERS PLANE INVOLVED. (United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright.) MUNICH, July 30. A strange collision in the air occurred a small distance from Munich’s aerodrome, Schleissheim. Junkers’ largest machine, D 2201, whose victory in the recent international flying contest over the Alps attracted so mud] attention, collided with a training aeroplane, which was precipitated to the ground completely wrecked, its pilot being so severely injured that his life is despaired of. The large Junkers’ ’plane, which had six persons aboard, including directors of Lufthansa, which lias just taken over the ’plane to put her into the international aviation, service, had one wing broken and one motor smashed, but succeeded in making such a smooth forced landing that none of its occupants had even a scratch.
MILITARY ’PLANE WRECKED
WARSAW, July 30
Wednesday and Thursday were bad times for Polish miStury aviation. One scouting ’piano crashed owing to a motor defect, near Lemberg, another near Konin, and a third near .Posen. In all six ] urn were killed and three ’planes wrecked.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1932, Page 5
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