A Fearful Fatality
BALLOON AND BIPLANE COLLIDE 'j ■ \i AT A HEIGHT OP 13C0 FEE?. "^ i By Cable—Press Association—Copyright]! Received 20, 5,6 p.m. ■? Vienna, June 20, 1 A Koerting dirigible ascended to takf j an aero-photograph. A captain, thret.J lieutenants, two mechanics and a civil! engineer were aboard. Later, two l lieu-'? tenants in a biplane encircled the bal«?j loon several times and attempted to fly over it. Accidentally the biplane gnu-'; ed and rent the envelope, which, witi % f violent explosion, burst into flames and ] fell 1300 ft. The occupants' charred : corpses, and the lieutenants in the Di- _ plane were found terribly mutilated.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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104A Fearful Fatality Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 27, 22 June 1914, Page 5
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