ÆRIAL NAVIGATION
ANOTHER FATALITY. By Cable —Pre«s Association—Copyright. Berlin. July 1. Koenig, winner of the 11*11 long-dis-tance circuit in Germany, has been killed \>y the capsizing of an aeroplane at Altona. A DREADFUL DISASTER. Received 3, 1.5 a.m. Boston, July 2. At the aerial meeting at Boston Miss Quimhy, the first woman to make an aerial trip across the English Channel, •with W. WilliaTd. the manager of the meeting, accompanying her as a passenger, fell a thousand feet into a small lake. Their bodies struck the bottom,» and both were killed instantly. Miss Qnimby attempted to volplane at too sharp an angle. Miss Scott, another airwoman, saw the bodies falling, and brought her machine wobbling earthward. She fainted a few vards from the ground.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 315, 3 July 1912, Page 5
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