AVIATION FATALITIES.
THREE MORE VICTIMS.
TWO BURNED TO DEATH.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.Copyright. Paris, September 3. Lieutenant Degrailly was flying at a height of 1500 ft, near Troyes, when his motor • exploded. His aeroplane turned several somersaults, and the tank took fire, Degrailly being burned to a cinder.
Captain Caraine, while aeroplaning at Nangis, fell 600 ft and was killed. < .
While M. Marron was aeroplaning at Chartres his machine turned a somersault. Marron fell beneath the machine and was crushed to death.
The wreckage took fire and his body was incinerated.
(Received September 4, 11.50. p.m.)
London, September 4.
Of 76 airmen killed since September 16, • 1908, 29 have been French, including 11 officers. .
PARACHUTIST DROWNED.
New York, September 3.
Brown, a young aeronaut, in the presence of a great crowd, after making the fireworks display from a balloon car at North Carolina, fell from his parachute into a shallow artificial lake and was drowned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147687, 5 September 1911, Page 7
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