AIRMEN'S FATAL FALL
TRAGEDY OF ATTEMPTING A NEW HEIGHT RECORD. Berlin, June 9. George Schendel, one of Germany's foremost airmen, who created a new world s altitude record on Tuesday last, this evening fell 3000 ft while making a flight with an engineer named Voss. The mangled remains of the two men were found beneath the wreck of their Dorner aeroplane. 1 hey ascended at 8 o'clock in an attempt to create another altitude record, but when they had got about 5000 ft high the spectators noticed that something went wrong with the aeroplane, which began to fall rapidly, swaying from side to side. Suddenly, at the height of 3000 ft, the machine turned right over and fell headlong. A cry of horror rose from t.lie thousands of onlookers as the aeroplane dashed into a garden at Adlersliof. It was difficult to distinguish the human remains from the mass of wreckage. Schendel, who was 20 years of age, was single. Voss, the engineer, was 28, arid married.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 36, 5 August 1911, Page 10
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167AIRMEN'S FATAL FALL Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 36, 5 August 1911, Page 10
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