PLANE CRASHES INTO HOUSE
Pilot And Sleeping Baby Killed PORTION OF BUILDING DEMOLISHED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 9, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 8. An Austin X plane piloted by a Mexican Army officer, Captain Avelino, who is a student at the United States Army flying school, struck a house a glancing blow and crashed head on into an adjoining house. The pilot and a boy aged two, who was in bed in the house, were killed, and the boy’s brother was seriously injured. Both children are the sons of a university professor. They were in the rear part of the house, which was demolished. Their parents, who were in a front room, were not injured. A fireman was forced to search for an hour before he found the pilot’s body. '
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Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 5
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