DEATH IN THE AIR
PILOT-COMPOSER KILLED. London, April 8. Mr and Mrs Brucy, who were killed in tho London-Paris airplano collision yesterday, are members of a New York family. They were making a cross-Channel flight. ' Both the pilots are well known in the Continental services. M. Mire, pilot of the French airplane, was ono of the ablest of the French fliers and a famous air fighter in the war. Ho won tho Croix de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire. Captain Duke, the pilot of tho English machine, was celebrated in tho dual role of airman and composer. Ho coiaposed the music of the recent festival at Portsmouth. He used to tell his frionds that the exhiliaration of flying inspired him with ideas for musical compositions. Two London-Paris airplanes were in collision, on April 7 near Beauvais, in France. They fell in flames after crashing head-on. The two pilots, one of the mechanics, and three passengers, were instantly killed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4577, 1 May 1922, Page 4
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