AVIATION DISASTER.
NAVAL OFFICER'S NECK BROKEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Cojjjrifht (Eec. June 15. 5.5 p.m.) London. Jutte 14. 'Another aviation fatality has occurred at i the Brooklands course. Mr- Gordon Bell wa9 monoplaning with lieutenant Kennedy, a naval airman, as a 'passenger, and was flying at a speed of eighty miles an hour when, in turning a corner, a wing touched the ground and. ioverturned tho machine. Lieutenant Kennedy's neck was broken and Mr. Bell was seriously injured. ARMY AIRSHIPS IN TROUBLE. NAKROW ESCAPE. London, June 18. The new Army dirigible, the Astra, Motions of which were a few months ago received from France, the airship being put together at Farnboroui'h, met with an accident during her m-ajdea trip at Farnborough. When at a height of a thousand feet she began to drop in an alarming manner, owing to a flaw in the mechanism regulating the gas pressure. Nearing the ground, the crew throw out ballast, and checked the fall. A hundred bluejackets then seized the landing ropes, and prevented a collision with tho aeroplane shed. The aeronauts safely landed.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1777, 16 June 1913, Page 5
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