CRASHED INTO HILL.
AVIATRIX KILLED. NEW YORK, Sept. 18. A message from San Diego (California) states that Mrs Ruth Alexander, aged 20, a well-known American -~u>trix, was killed a few minutes after starting on non-stop trans-continental flight to New York. The machine crashed into a hill in a residential section just inside the city limits. It is believed that Mrs Alexander lost her bearings in 'a , heavy fog and was travelling at high speed. She was the first woman to make a non-stop flight from Canada to Mexico, and was the holder of the light ’plane altitude record for a woman—2o,ooo feet. ’PLANES COLLIDE. ACROBATS - KILLED. BERLIN, Sept. 19. Three German acrobats were killed at Stuttgart to-day. One acrobat was climbing a rope ladder extended between two ’planes, when the ma. chines collided and crashed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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