IN THE AIR.
SERIOUS ACCIDENTS. TWO FATALITIES. London, May 5. General Sykes, Controller-General of civil aviation, who was summoned urgently to Paris in connection with the peaoe deliberations, was proceeding thither by aeroplane when the machine crashed to the ground at Kenley, owing to side-slipping while ascending. The pilot was killed, General Sykes, who was badly shaken, returning to London Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
A FATAL ACCIDENT. London, May 3. Flight-Commander Peter Legs was testing an aeroplane at Finchley when the machine caught fire at a great height. Legs jumped out and was killed. The machine fell on a house, setting it on fire. PREPARING FOR ATLANTIC FLIGHT London. May 5. The, fogs and rainstorms in Newfoundland have subsided and' drying westerlies, accompanied by a rising barometer, promise an early start on the trans-At-lantic flight. The United States naval seaplanes which will shortly attempt the flight will have the guidance of sixty destroyers showing a searchlight every fifty miles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1919, Page 7
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