FRENCH AIRMAN KILLED
MACHINE STRIKES TREF. AND CAPSIZES SPANIARDS BADLY HURT (United Service) LONDON, Monday. A flying fatality is reported from Paris. Captain Couduret, who had. proposed to attempt an Atlantic flight with Captain Mailloux but was forbidden to do so by the Air Ministry, left Saville for Paris piloting the airplane La France, which ,he had intended to use on the proposed ocean flight. He was accompanied by two Spaniards. When the machine was near Angouleme engine trouble developed and the pilot attempted to land. The airplane struck a tree and capsized. All the occupants were severely injured and the machine was badly damaged. Captain Couduret died on the way to hospital. I
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 11
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114FRENCH AIRMAN KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 710, 9 July 1929, Page 11
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