SHOT THE PILOT. ‘
Frenchwoman’s Action After Quarrel In ’Plane. Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m. To-day). Paris. December 20. After taking off from the Villa Coublay aerodrome, a ’plane unsteadily landed in a field near Trappers but took off again as passing motorists rushed up and found the pilot staggering about with a bullet wound in the neck. He was taken to hospital at Versailles, where he stated that a woman passenger, a.s the result of a love quarrel, shot him in the back. Both had quitted the machine on landing but she re-entered it and flew off.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 314, 21 December 1936, Page 5
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97SHOT THE PILOT. ‘ Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 314, 21 December 1936, Page 5
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