DROPPED LIKE A STONE
AVIATION FATALITY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, July 31. (Received July 31, 11 pan.) Flight-Sergeant Rapin having told his parents that he would fly over their house in the afternoon, they and their neighbours assembled on the doorstep, watching the evolutions, when the machine dropped like a stone. The mechanic and two women were killed. The remainder of the party were seriously injured. Rapin was taken tn the hospital on the same stretcher as his mother. The house was partly demolished.
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Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 5
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