AEROPLANE CRASH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 August 1928, Page 7

AEROPLANE CRASH

FRENCH AOP’S DEATH

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian Press Association.—United Service. * ■■

PARIS, 9th August. “How I wanted to fly the Atlantic.” These, the last words of Drouhin, the famous. French ace, fatally injured in a trial flight, reveal the extent of the life’s ambition which possessed him. M. Couzinet, the financier of the flight, sat sobbing beside the dying aviator, who, conscious throughout, recounted the .accident. He said that he had a presentiment that something wpuld happen. The vibrating wings made a terrific noise, and then the machine went into a nose dive. He rolled himself- into a ball and covered His face with his hand. .

The famous flyer Lebrix was due to accompany him but was held up by a motor-car. When he .arrived at the aerodrome, he found the machine in the air. .> • : .

1 France to-day is mourning the loss cf one of her foremost aviators.

AEROPLANE FALLS ON CROWDED ■ /, , . BUS (Received 11th August, 9.35 a.m.) VANCOUVER, 10th August. A new Westminster message states that a unique accident occurred when an aeroplane crashed down hundreds of feet on to.a bus loaded with thirty persons. It was a miracle no one was hurt. The pilot was only, shaken.

TWO SOUTH AFRICANS KILLED

(Received 11th August, 9.55 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 10th. August. A Kimberley diamond buyer and the ,owner of the/first privately-owned Moth in South' Africa,, used for weekly visits to the diamond digging, left this morning accompanied by a retired air "force officer. They crashed near Lichtenburg, and both are dead. The machine’s nose hit the earth with great violence. ,

MEMORIAL TO .MECHANIC ELLIOTT

(Received 11th August, 9.55 a.m.) BASRA, 10th August. A gravestone in Aberdeen, granite, sculptured with Cobham s aeroplane, has been erected over the grave of Arthur Elliott, the mechanic whom a Bedouin shot while on the Anglo-Aus-tralian flight in 1926. ■ . . '