THREE AMERICAN FLYING TRAGEDIES
Pilot and Passenger Killed; Three Missing DIRIGIBLE ON NON-STOP FLIGHT [By Electric Cable-Copvrlght.l lAust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Monday, 7.5 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Fob. 26. A message from Auroroa, Nebraska, reports that F. N. Craig, a pessenger, was burned to death and the pilot, Frank Yaegcr, was injured when the air mail plane bound from Omaha to 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 tho craft was reported three hundred miles north-cast. of Nassau in tho Bahamas group . A message from Sebastian (Florida) states that tho flivver airplane which fell into tho sea on Saturday night en 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 p.ml VANCOUVER, Feb. 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 ro-;
turned to Curtis Field from an airplane flight fifty miles seaward on Saturday night.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 7
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184THREE AMERICAN FLYING TRAGEDIES Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 7
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