ENGINE DROPS OUT A FORTUNATE LANDING. SAN FRANCISCO, April 15. With a monoplane from his own factory here, Vance Brecso made a safe landing a few miles beyond tho city with seven passengers after the motor and tho propeller had torn loose from the frame and dropped from an altitude of I,'2ooft Brecso was forced to glide over four high-power electric wires to reach a. landing on a farm.— Australian Press Association. ITALIAN AIRMAN'S FUNERAL COMPANION OF DI PINEDO. ROME, April 15. Three hundred thousand people attended the funeral of ’Captain Del Preto, who accompanied Di Pinedo on his Australian flight, and who was killed at Bracciano. —Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19843, 17 April 1928, Page 4
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