FLYING TRAGEDY
PLANE CRASHES INTO HOUSE PILOT AND BOY KILLED LATTER’S BROTHER INJURED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, Dec. 8. (Received Dec. 9, at 1 a.m.) An Austintex plane, piloted by Captain Fa Avelino, of the Mexican army, who was a student at the United States Army Flying School, struck a house a glancing blow and crashed head-on into an adjoining house, killing the pilot and a boy aged two, who was in bed, and seriously injured the latter’s brother. The children, who are sons of a university professor, were in the rear part of the house, which was demolished. The parents, who were in a front room, were not injured. Firemen were forced to search for an hour to find the pilot’s body.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 11
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