WOMAN FLIER KILLED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 9

WOMAN FLIER KILLED

CRASHED INTO A HILL IN HEAVY FOG ALTITUDE RECORD HOLDER United P.A. By Telegraph Copyright NEW YORK, Thursday A fatal flying accident occurred at San Diego, California, in which Mrs. Ruth Alexander, aged 25, the best known American airwoman, was kiled A few minutes after starting on a proposed non-stop transcontinental flight to New York her machine crashed into a hill in a residential section just inside the city limits. It is believed that Mrs. Alexander lost her bearings in a heavy fog. She was travelling at high speed. The machine was badly damaged. Mrs. Alexander was the first woman to make a non-stop flight from Canada to Mexico and was the holder of the light airplane altitude record for a woman, 20,000 feet, which she established after she had had only 20 hours iu the air. STUNT PLANES COLLIDE GERMAN ACROBATS KILLED BERLIN, Thursday. Three' German acrobats, who were giving an exhibition in the air were killed at Stuttgart. One acrobat was climbing a rope ladder extended between two planes when the machines collided and fell to the ground.