AUTO-GIRO DAMAGED BY BAD HANDLING
SMASH AT L£ BOURGET. Australian Press Association.Received .Friday, 0.2(J p.m.,_ - PARIS, Sept. 21. ' While Sonor de la Cicrva’s auto-giro was descending vertically at Le Bouiget, the tail hit mo ground heavily before the undercarriage, causing considerable damage. Sonor de ia Oierva in a statement, said! ‘The accident was not, due to any fault in the auto-giro,- only to my bad piloting. I took oft too close to the edge of the field ;and struck a pole, Breaking the auto-giro’s cables. I succeeded in slackening speed and descending. If it had been a,n ordinary plane, both passengers would have been seriously injured, if not Rilled...
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 September 1928, Page 8
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