THREE AMERICAN AIR TRAGEDIES.
DIRIGIBLE ON NON-STOP FLIGHT (Received Monday, 7.5 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Feb. 26. A message from Auroroa, Nebraska, reports that F. N. Craig, a peasenger, was burned to death and the pilot, Frank Yaegcr, was injured when th® air mail plane bound' from Omaha t* Cheyenne crashed to-day .\ WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The dirigible Los Angeles left Lakehurst, New Jersey, this morning to attempt a non-stop flight to Panama. To.night the craft was reported three hundred miles north-east of Nassau in the Bahamas group . A message from Sebastian - (Florida) states that the flivver airplane which fell into the sea on Saturday night eu route from Detroit to Miami, in charge of Harry Brooks was located to-day, but there was no trace of Brooks. (Received Monday 10.40 pint VANCOUVER. Fob. 27. New York reports that an air search failed to reveal the fate of the pilot Walter -Hendricks and an unidentified passenger who have not returned to Curtis. Field . from an airplane flight fifty miles seaward on Saturday night.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 28 February 1928, Page 2
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