AEROPLANE RISKS.
- ■ ■ 1 -FIFTEEN AMERICAN FATALITIES ON SATURDAY. ’TWO PLIERS BURNED IN A HOUSE (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Sun Cable). (Received This Day. 0.10 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Sept. 16. Altogether fifteen persons were killed in aeroplane accidents on Saturday afternoon, including the crash of a sight•sceing plane at St. Catherine’s, Ontario, where six persons —a woman, a ■child and four men —were killed when a aeroplane crashed. At Chicago, Walter Mayers and Jack Crone left a private air field with two planes—Mayers with one woman passenger, and Crone with two. When joy-riding at ‘an altitude of 1000 feet, they collided and all five were killed. At San Francisco two friends flying in a hired plane fell into a residence, raad were burned in a fire which consumed the plane and the house. . At Wichita, Kansas, Helen Williams, ,:a stenographer, fell 2000 feet before a great airport crowd. She had leaped from a plane to demonstrate the safety of a special parachute, which failed .to open.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 September 1929, Page 5
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