AIR PILOT ARRESTED
- FATAL FALL INTO CROWD.
New York, April 30.
A message from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says that for the first time a pilot has been arrested on a charge of murder.
Milton Colvert, a flying circus pilot, ie under arrest following the deaths of eight persons, and injuries to 16 others, when hie machine crashed into a crowd of spectators. While descending to a landing field which swarmed with spectators, Colvert purposely flew low to frighten the people away from his path. When 50ft. above the ground the aeroplane suddenly dropped, its whirling propeller striking the crowd with deadly effect. An angry mob seized and would have lynched him but for the’ aid of the police. Feeling is running very high. Three of the injured ar? likely to die, which would raise the death roll to 11. Colvert said he encountered an air pocket.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1930, Page 9
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