AEROPLANE TRAGEDIES
INDIAN IRONTIER SMASH. FOUR MACHINES FALL. Pim* Association— By Tolsgraph—‘Copyright. DELHI, July 00. Four aeroplanes out of six crashed in a fog while carrying out bombing operations on the North-west Frontier, against the tribesmen. Each machine carried a pilot and a bomber. The crews of two of the machines were killed, and the third fell into the hands of the tribesmen. Their fate is unknown. The fourth crew escaped uninjured. —Sydney Sun Cable. DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN PARIS. PARIS, July 31. (Received July 31, at 8. p.m.) Flight-sergeant Rapin, having told tus parents that he would fly over their house in the afternoon, they and the neighbours assembled on the doorstep watching the evolutions when the machine dropped like a stone. The mechanic and two women were killed and the remainder of the party were seriously injured. Rapin was taken to hospital on the same stretcher as his mother. The house was partly demolished. —A- and -N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 7
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