AIRPLANE CRASHES
WAR FILM FATALITY (United Service) Reed. 9.5 a.m. KEW YORK, Sunday. A flying fatality occurred to-day at Los Angeles, when a bombing airplane, which was being used for the filming of a war picture, went into a tail-spin and crashed. The mechanic, Philip Jones, was killed, but his companion, A 1 Wilson, a noted flyer for the films, escaped death by leaping out with a parachute. At the time of the accident the final picture of a series was being taken. Camera operators in two other airplanes photographed the fall of Wilson’s machine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 621, 25 March 1929, Page 1
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