WOMAN AVIATOR KILLED.
3MACHIN‘E SPUN WHILE PLYING LOW. • (By Telegraph-Press Assn. -Copyright.) ' (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.)' LONDON, Sept 20. Margaret Wellby was killed while piloting an aeroplane at. Brooklands. She was flying low, when the machine developed a spin, the pilot being unable to recover the (direcHiori. Margaret Wellby is the first woman pilot killed in an air crash in Britain, though Lady Carbery was killed at Nairobi, in Kenya Colony, and several women passengers were killed. ACCIDENT TO AUTO-GIRO. HIT THE GROUND TAIL FIRST. if By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Press Assn, and Sun.) Received this day, 10.10 a.m. ; PARIS, September 20. While De la'Cierva’s auto-giro fraa descending vertically at Le Bourget ' the tail hit the' ground heavily before the unller-carriage, causing considerable damage.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 September 1928, Page 5
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