TWO SMASHES
AEROPLANES DESTROYED. Australian anrl N.Z Cnb'-' : : - IXJNDON, January 23. There were two curiously similar crashes in the London-Paris air service. An English machine, arriving at Le Bourget, nose-dived and burst into flames. The machine and mails were destroyed, but the passengers escaped. A French aeroplane, landing at Croydon, dipped its tail and smashed the under-carriage. The pilot and two passengers, including an Algerian sheik, with a turban and flowing blue robes, jumped out. Flames destroyed the aeroplane in ten minutes.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 8
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82TWO SMASHES New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 8
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