CONQUEST OF THE AIR
ACCIDENT TO THE AEROPLANE.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
PARIS, August 14. When descending Mr Wrght touched the ■wrong lever, causing the aeroplane to strike five ground slightly and injuring one wing. The mishap has delayed the propoted experiments for eight days AIRSHIP EXPLODES. TWO PERSONS KILLED, MANY WOUNDED. LONDON, August 14. (Received August 15, at 8.25 am.) While a captive airship at the FrancoBritish Exhibition was being inflated the gas exploded, burning the airship to ashes, wrecking the shed, killing a man and a woman, and injuring several others, three eeriouelv.
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Evening Star, Issue 13031, 15 August 1908, Page 5
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94CONQUEST OF THE AIR Evening Star, Issue 13031, 15 August 1908, Page 5
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