S. AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Array Aeroplanes Come to Grief. PARACHUTE PAILS. BUENOS AYRES, February 27. Two American officers were _ killed yesterdav as a result of a collision between two Army aeroplanes. Captain C. F. Woolsey, commander oi the Pan-American aeroplane Detroit, and Relief-Pilot Lieutenant J. W. Benton, in the aeroplane New York, were flvin 0, to the Pgiomar aviation field, outside Buenos Avres, when the collision The machines caught fire and the aviators aboard jumped in parachutes. One of the latter failed to open. The New York and the Detroit crashed to the earth. One of the victims was burned to death and the other was killed through his parachute failing to open. Two other airmen descended saielv by means was the flagship of Hi a =nuadron which left San Antonio, Texas on December 21, on a 20 000 miles flight around South America. There "ere five machines in the squadron.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 7
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