FLYING FATALITIES.
CRASHES IN AMERICA. SEVEN PERSONS LOSE LIVES. . United Service. LOS ANGELES, May 13. Four flying fatalities occurred at the week-end. In the first ease Raymond Kettenhofen, an amateur pilot, took his brother aloft in a borrowed aeroplane which crashed. Both men were killed. The wreckage of the machine was strewn along a highway among hundreds of motorists. In the second case Christopher Evans, chief instructor of the Cranby Aeroplane Club, was killed near Montreal while he was testing a new Gipsy Moth.
The third accident occurred near Waukegan, Illinois. Elmer Hobbs, a pilot, and two passengers were killed when an aeroplane crashed. In the fourth accident Captain Ronald Smith, a British aviator, who brought down five German machines in the war, was killed while he was attempting to make a tail-spin too near to the ground.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20255, 15 May 1929, Page 13
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