AVIATION TRAGEDIES.
CRASH AT BUENOS AIRES. PARACUTE FAILS TO (OPEN. BUENOS AIRES, February 26. Two American officers were killed to-day as a result of a collision between two Army aeroplanes. Captain C. F. Woolsey, commander of the Pan-American aeroplane Detroit, and Relief-Pilot Lieutenant J. W. Benton, in the aeroplane New York, were flying to the Palomar aviation field, outside Buenos Aires, when the collision occurred.
The machines caught, fire and the aviators aboard jumped in parachutes. One of the latter failed to ■open.
The New York was the flagship of the squadron which left San Antonio, Texas, on December 21, on a 20,009 miles flight around South America. There were five machines' in the squadron. The New York and the Detroit crashed to the earth. One of the victims, was burned to death and the other was killed through his parachute failing to open. Two other airmen descended safely by means <’f parachutes.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5094, 28 February 1927, Page 2
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153AVIATION TRAGEDIES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5094, 28 February 1927, Page 2
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