FOUR AIRMEN KILLED.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ACCIDENT IN VIRGINIA. (Received April 30, 5,25 p.m.) A. and N Z.-Stm. NEW YORK, Amil -*O. Four lives were lost in a Hying accident to-day at Norfolk, Virginia. Lieutenants Marinelli and Ley man, of the Naval Air Service, and two enlisted men were killed through lightning striking their aeroplane while they were in flight. Hie machine crashed into Cluaapeake Bay. MISHAP TO DE JJAKROS. SEAPLANE TO BIE REPAIRED. A. and N.Z. RIO DE .TARKIRO, April 29. Two seta of propellers will be shipped from Pernambuco to Fernando do Noronha, the island oil the coast of Brazil, where Do Barron' aeapl&nc has been towed. They will replace the broken propter# of his machine, which fell into the «ea when de Barros was near Brazil on his flight across the Atlantic.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19625, 2 May 1927, Page 9
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