AIR TRAGEDIES.
FOUR FATAL FALLS. Btf Tclccrauli—Press Association—Copyright Paris, September 3. Lieutenant Dβ Grailly was flying at ,i height of 1500 ft. near Troycs, when his motor exploded. The aeroplane somersaulted several times, and tho tank took fire. De Grailly was burned to a cinder Captain Caniinc, while aeroplnning nl Nnngis, near A'ontaineblcau, fell from a height of 600 ft., and was killed. 11. Jlarron was aeroplaning at Cliartres when his machine somersaulted, and lie was crushed and then incinerated, AN AMERICAN DISASTER. New York, September 3. Jfr. Brown Yourig, an aeronaut, in tho presence of a great crowd was malting a fVreworks display from a balloon car at Isorth Carolina, whcii he fell from, tho parachute into a shallow artificial lake, and was drowned. • SEVENTY-SIX DEAD IN THREE VI! AllS. (Reo, September d, 11.15 p.m.) London, September 4. Of the seventy-six airmen who liave been killed since September Iβ, 1908, hventynine were Frenchmen, including eleven who were officers in the. Trench Army.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 5 September 1911, Page 7
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163AIR TRAGEDIES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1224, 5 September 1911, Page 7
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