SEQUEL TO A CRASH
LADY HEATH CLAIMS £55,000 NKW YORK, Feb. 25. A claim for £55.0C0 is being made by Lady Heath against the Cirrus Engines t'o. * She slates she intends to press her suit for this amount as damages for in juries she received when she crashed while acting, she alleges, as a test pilot. Lady Heath, as .Mrs. Elliot Lynn, made a name as an airwoman before she married Kir James Heath, the ironmaster and colliery proprietor. She was reported to have been planted a divorce at Reno, Nevada, in May, 1930. She held the record for a British solo altitude flight of 23,000 ft, in 1928. Crashing when cm a flight over Cleveland, Ohio, in August, 1929. she suffered a fracture of the skull and leg und chest injuries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 12
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