TWO AIRMEN KILLED.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9, 4 August 1911, Page 8

TWO AIRMEN KILLED.

FALL OF 5000 FEET. One of Germany's most daring airmen, Herr Schendel, and a passenger, an engineer named Yoss, were killed at Johannisthal, near Berlin, on June 9. The motor suddenly stopped when the monoplane was 5000 feet up, and the machine fell like a stone to the ground. Schendel, who was 24 years of age, had gone up with the intention of beating the world's height record. When at half-past eight the firing of a gun announced the end of the day's flying Schendel was at a height variously given as from 5000 to GSOO feet. He apparently tried to descend in a volplane, but the aeroplane suddenly tilted and began to drop vertically. The airman succeeded in righting his machine for a moment, but it again lipped, and, falling vertically, crashed to the earth just beyond Adlershof. A motor car was immediately despatched, and the bodies of the airman and his passenger were brought back to the flying ground.