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AEROPLANE DISASTER CRASH CAUSED BY FOG (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Asßn.) NEW YORK, April 18. A message from Jersey City states that Count" Henri Vela Valaux, president of the Aeronautique International of Paris, and three other occupants of a passenger ’plane, en route from Albany (N.Y.) to Newark, were electrocuted when the ’plane struck a high tension wire. The machine was soon enveloped in flames, and crashed to the ground. Timpilot, Sal way, during tho war served with the Royal Air oFrce. The tragedy was watched bv terrorstricken spectators, and was due to a fog restricting visibility. One of tho passengers was a woman. The ’plane, which was a Fairchild monoplane, was chartered by Count Valaux, who had completed a 4000-mile air tour of North America. He was found to be wearing evening clothes, with the ribbon of tho Legion of Honor, when his body was removed from the wreckage, a proceeding which was - rendered doubly difficult by the darkness, the crash having extinguished all lights in Hudson County (N.J.).
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17239, 21 April 1930, Page 7
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