ATTACK IN MID-AIR.
PASSENGER STUNS PILOT. DESTRUCTION OF AEROPLANE. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received May 15, 6.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 14
An extraordinary affair is reported from Pontiac, Michigan. Mr. Harry Anderson, a commercial pilot, had completed a flight and was searching for a landing field when he was attacked by an apparently demented passenger. The latter struck him on the bead with a hammer.
Mr. Anderson was temporarily stunned and the plane nose-dived. The t ilot recovered consciousness in time to right the machine when it was close to the ground. It was demolished, but the occupants were not injured. The passenger did not explain his action. Curiously enough the plane landed on the property of a mental hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 11
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