FATAL TEST FLIGHT
D€ PIN€OOS BIG SEAPLANE
COMPANION DROWNED, MACHINE
WRECKED.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable As.n.)
(Received 21st July, noon.)
ROME, 20th July. While the Marchese de Pinedo was alighting at Pisa after a test flight of the seaplane in which he intended to carry out a world flight, a huge wave capsized the machine and drowned Major Conti. De Pinedo waa slightly injured. The machine was completely wrecked.
The Marchese de Pinedo, who laat year flew to Australia and back, via Japan and India, intended to fly round the world from Italy to South America, via the route taken by the Spanish aviator, Franco, and from Valparaiso across the Pacific to New Zealand and on to Australia and home to Rome, via Asia and Europe.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 9
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