AVIATION ACCIDENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 819, 17 May 1910, Page 5

AVIATION ACCIDENTS.

» IN BERLIN. GERMAN CAPTAIN SEIiIOUSLY INJURED. B 7 TelcjraDh—Presa Association—OoDyrlihl. (Rec. May IG, 10.40 p.m.) Berlin, May 16. The aviation meeting at Berlin was marked by a chapter of accidents. Thielens, who was flying in a biplane, fell a distance of 30 feet. Shorup's Bleriot monoplane crashed into some trees. Jeannina's Farmau biplane turned a somersault, owing, it is said, to the unoveimess of the ground. The Wright biplane of Captain Engelliardt, the German officer who was tutored in Germany last year by Mr. Orville Wright, collided with a signal mast, and fell 50 feet. The four aeroplanes were wrecked. Captain Engelhardt was taken to the hospital. The injuries of the other three 'aviators were trifling. HOW MICHELIN WAS KILLED. (Rec. May 17, 0.5 a.m.) Paris, May IG. Michelin, the aeroplanist, whose death was reported yesterday, was killed in the Lyons Aerodrome. He was inexperienced, lost control of his Antoinette monoplane, and 6truck a' pyramid, fracturing his skull. AEROPLANE DEATH-LIST. Up to April i, six men had lost their lives through the aeroplane, or heavier-than-air flying machine, as apart from balloonists' deaths (which, of course, number very many more). The aeroplanists killed, with the names of the machines they were using and the places and dates of their deaths, are:— Lieutenant Selfridge (Wright), ■ Washington, September 17, 190 S. M. Lefevre (Wright), Juvisy, September 7, 1909. v Captain Ferber (Voisin), Boulogne, September 20, 1909. M. Fernandez (Fernandez), Nice, December 6, 1909. \l. Delagtange 'Bleriot), Bordeaux, January i, 1910. M. Le Blon (Bleriot), San Sebastian, April 2, 1910. In addition, a cablegrnm in last issue mentioned the death of Hanvette Michelin, whose aeroplane was struck by a cyclone at Lyons, and fell.