DEATH OF AMERICAN AIRMAN.
CRASH DUE TO DRUNKENNESS. (VXITZD ?R»3S ASSOCIiTIOX—BT BLECTKC TELE3BAPH—COPTBIOHT.) NEW YORK, July 5. A sensation has been caused by the official announcement of the City Toxicologist, Dr. Goettler, that the airman, Wilbur Stultz, who lost his life in a fatal crash was "very drunk at the time of his death." The dead airman has already been officially declared responsible for the crash. The authorities will discharge all pilots found drinking.—Australian Press Association.
[Stultz was the pilot on the transAtlantic flight of Miss Earhart's Friendship. On July Ist he went up with two passengers at Roosevelt Flying Field intending to do some stunting. The machine suddenly went into a spin at 200 ft and spun down at breakneck speed, striking the ground with terrific noise, and barely missing a motortruck in which two men were sitting. Stultz's companions were killed instantlv. and he himself died in hospital 'immediately afterwards.]
THE PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19665, 8 July 1929, Page 5
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