MORE AIR TRAGEDIES.
EIGHT PERSONS KILLED.
ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA.
United Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Five lives wera lost in a flying accident at Chicago this afternoon. Messrs. "Walter Mayers antl Jack Crono left a private air field in two aeroplanes. Mayers had one woman passenger and Crone two. At an altitudo of 1000 ft. the two machines collided and the five occupants were killed.
At San Francisco two friends, who were flying in a hired aeroplane, fell on to a house and were burned to death in a fire which consumed the machine and the building. A fatality also occurred at Wichita, Kansas. Miss Helen Williams, a stenographer, fell from a height of 2000 ft. before tho eyes of a crowd at tho airport. She had leaped from an aeroplane in order to demonstrate the safety of a special parachute, but the latter failed to open.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 17 September 1929, Page 9
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