AIRMAN’S TRAGIC BET.
FLIGHT UNDER EIFFEL TOWER.
ENTANGLED IN AERIAL WARES.
PARIS, February 24
A .bet made by Airman Lemeri Callot with an American, that he would fly . beneath the arch of the Eiffel Tower, had a tragic ending. The airman, who is a pupil at the army aerodrome, accomplished the actual feat, but wheh attempting .to rise his machine became entangled with the aerial °f the wireless station and dropped like a stone over the Champ de Mars, crashing through a tree to the lawn below.
Flames broke out, and the pilot was burned to death in his seat, still’ gripping the levers.
A large crowd, including the airman's brother, witnessed the tragedy.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4944, 26 February 1926, Page 3
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114AIRMAN’S TRAGIC BET. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4944, 26 February 1926, Page 3
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