Air Hazards

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 155, 21 September 1927, Page 9

Air Hazards

MORE FATAL MISHAPS BIG AMERICAN RACE By Cable. — Pi-ess Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Tuesday. From the Roosevelt Field 15 airplanes hopped off on Tuesday morning in the 2,275-mile national air race. At Spokane, Washington, shortly after the start, one plane crashed. The pilot and the mecchanic were killed. —A. and N.Z.-Sun.

Reed. 9.30 a.m. BARCELONA, Tuesday. A naval airplane became entangled in telegraph wires, and crashed in a river. The pilot "was killed, and a passenger seriously injured.—A. and N.Z.

Reed. 9.5 a.m. COLOGNE, Tuesday. The German airman Roelnecke, who recently abandoned for the present year his attempt to fly from Europe to America, has now commenced a flight to the east. He hopes, after flying across Asia, to reach San FraD cisco after a final flight across the North Pacific.—A. and N.Z.

HIT A MOUNTAIN AIRMAN’S ESCAPE LION AS PASSENGER NEW YORK, Tuesday. The air pilot, Martin Jensen, who won the second prize in the Dole flight from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, in the airplane Aloha, on August 16, crashed on Saturday, and narrowly escaped death. The accident occurred in the mountains in Northern Arizona. Mr. Jensen had left Dos Angeles on Friday on a non-stop transcontinental flight, with a tame lion belonging to a moTing picture firm as his sole passenger. The animal was in a special cage built behind the pilot's seat. The side of a mountain suddenly loomed out of the fog, and the plane struck it and was demolished. Mr. Jensen was stunned. When he opened his eyes he saw the Hon sleeping 50 feet away from its broken cage.

“I was sent to deliver the lion, and if I could not do it aboard the airplane I was at liberty to try it walking,” said the airman to cowboys who found him on Sunday afternoon leading the lion by its collar, and trying to find a waterhole. —Sun.