FAMOUS AVIATOR'S DEATH
McINTOSH KILLED IN EXHIBITION FLIGHT
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)
PERTH, March JJ9 Lieutenant Mcintosh, with a passenger named Joy, was killed through the airship developing engine trouble and nose-diving half a' mile to earth. A second passenger was seriously injured. Mcintosh, with Parer, completed the famous flight from England last August, alter an adventurous experience.
PERTH, This Day Further details of the Mcintosh disaster show that the machine suddenly plunged to the earth from a height of 1200 feet, while- Mcintosh was giving an exhibition ilight at Pithara." It crashed with considerable force in a cleared paddock. The machine wreck half buried Mcintosh and Joy, who were found dead strapped to the seats. The third man, Loughlm, was badly injured. .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 30 March 1921, Page 5
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