TERRIBLE AERIAL FATALITIES
* MAQBISB FALLS IN FLAMES. AVIATOR BURNT TO DEATH. \fPress Association-By Telegraph.— Copyrig'jn. Paris, Yesterday. Lieut. Pirimceteau, intending to i ••start in to-day's Paris-Brussels- . London race, was practising with a .Bleriot aeroplane at Issy, when the : machine fell ill ft burst of flames. The lieutenant's body was charred and unrecognisable. When the machine fell, and burst into flames, Princeteau ,in the presence of his brother, made superhuman efforts to escape from the wreckage, but the smoke suffocated him. ' The flames were so fierce that the machine was unapproachable. ifo Malrfe, another competitor,, Mn 'a Bleriot, fatally dashed into a tree. The accident was attributed to a faulty propeller. Dalger, the third competitor, was severely injured at Soissons. Hague, Yesterday.
Owing to M. Bertcaux's death, the •municipality has prohibited the pass.age of aeroplanes and airships over -the capital.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1347, 20 June 1911, Page 5
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