AVIATION TRAGEDY.
AMERICAN 'PLANE CRASHES.
FOUR OCCUPANTS KILLED.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. B.{i p.m.) NEW YORK, April 21.
A message from Dayton, Ohio, states thai four Army aviators were killed and one seriously injured when Va ' bombing aeroplane nose-dived 200 ft. Captain W. R. Lawson, who was piloting the machine, swerved sharply to avoid a bridge which he was unable to clear owing to a choppy headwind. The craft dropped plummet-like. The skulls of the victims were fractured. J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 7
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