Seven Killed

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 958, 29 April 1930, Page 9

Seven Killed

HEAVY TOLL OF AIRPLANES

Acrobat’s Fearful Death

STUNT MACHINE DIVES INTO CROWD SEVERAL airplane tragedies are reported from different parts of the world. A stunting plane in Tennessee, U.S.A., dived into a crowd of spectators and killed six persons, injuring 20. In Berlin an acrobat, in attempting to climb from one machine to another, died a ghastly death before a huge crowd. A French plane was found by tribesmen on the Sahara Desert with one of its former occupants terribly injured. The other two men are missing.

United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.10 a.m. BERLIN, Monday. A German acrobatic airman named Hundertmark was horribly killed before thousands of people at Dusseldorf when attempting to climb a rope ladder from a flying plane to another machine. Hundertmark caught the end of the ladder attached to the machine above, but was unable to raise his feet to the rung. The second pilot fruitlessly tried to pull him up. Landing meant death, thus for three-quarters of an hour the horrified spectators watched Hundertmark dangling in mid-air. Firemen held a sheet and the machine circled frequently, but the acrobat had either become entangled or had lost his nerve, and was unable to drop. Finally the pilot steeled his heart and landed. Hundertmark was dragged along the ground, and when picked up he was terribly injured and died in a short while.

WRECKAGE IN DESERT

FRENCHMAN BADLY HURT COMPANIONS MISSING Reed. 9.35 a.m. PARIS, Monday. The wreckage of an airplane was found by tribesmen in the Sahara,

Desert 900 miles from Reggan, to which Captains Goulette, Marehesseau and Bourgeois set out on April 22. Captain Goulette was found beside the wreckage terribly injured, but there was no sign of his companions, though they may have been slightly injured and gone to bring assistance. Meanwhile an armoured car party is searching for them and has also taken- a doctor to attend to Captain Goulette.

CRASH INTO CROWD

STUNT PLANE KILLS SIX TWENTY INJURED NEW YORK, Sunday. A sensational tragedy occurred at Nashville, Tennessee, resulting in six people being killed and 20 others.injured. An airplane swept over a railway embankment upon which a crowd of spectators stood watching a “stunt” flying exhibition. Suddenly the machine dived and dropped into the midst of the crowd. The pilot and two passengers escaped injury. Among the victims were one woman and several children. Mamothers were slightly injured in the stampede of the frightened crowd.