AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 21519, 18 September 1933, Page 9

AVIATION

MRS MOLLISON'S DESIRE TO DIE FLYING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, TORONTO, September 15. Mrs Amy Mollison said in an interview: “Perhaps you think me funny, but unless I can get adventure I do not want to live. I shall fly until I die, and 1 hope I shall die flying.” She expressed a doubt about the ability to undertake a long-distance record attempt, adding: “The season is very; late, and we are not looking for suicide.” TRAGEDY AT BROOKLANDS LADY CLAYTON DIES FROM INJURIES. LONDON, September 16. Lady Clayton, who was an accomplished amateur pilot, died from injuries received at Brooklands aerodrome. She had started the engine of. her machine and was climbing into the cockpit when the aeroplane moved forward. It rapidly gathered speed, and she fell. She was carried unconscious to hospital, where she died. The machine turned turtle. AIR FORCE BOMBER CRASHES PILOT KILLED. LONDON, September 16. The Brooklands Aerodrome, where Lady Clayton was killed yesterday, was the scene of another disaster. A huge R.A.F. bomber, with five passengers, in endeavouring to land, failed to slow down and taxied into a ditch. The plane broke its back and the pilot was killed and two passengers were injured.