AEROPLANE TRAGEDY.
THE.BLACK FOREST ACCIDENT SURVIVOR'S GRAPHIC STORY. ..v • * Australian- and N.Z. Cable Association. (Seed. 11.80 p.m<) LOJfDON, Sept. 15. .'The Paris correspondent- of fJbo Morn- ■; Ing Post states that the French aviator, M. de Costfe, has given a graphic description of Che disaster in the Black Forest that befel the aeroplane in which he and the lato M. Thierry were flying across Germany on Sunday. - • Tivo hours after leaving Etampes the pfetrol feed gave oat and the engine stopped. The pilot, M., Thierry, prepared to land. He handled the machine splendidly, but owing to the fog he did' not observe the tree which the wing caught. .The machine crashed info the river »nu both airmen were buried under the wreckage. M. Thierty, who was in the front seat with his head downwards in "the water, straggled to free himself. He chanted "Help! I am suffocating." 'M. de Coste was unable to extricate himself, or to do anything to help his comrade. When the men who heard tiie crash came up M. Thierry was beyond human aid; Ho died a few minutes iater. His skull and one thigh were fractured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 9
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190AEROPLANE TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 9
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