CRASH IN MOUNTAINS
GRAPHIC STORY OF TRAGEDY. SURVIVOR’S PARACHUTE ESCAPE. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 11. Tragic details of the abrupt termination of M. Dumitrescu’s flight to Australia in December was related by an oil company officer. M. Dumitrescu was flying a Rumanian two-seater tourer monoplane, with a top speed of 160 miles and a cruising speed of 125 miles an hour. The officer said: “M. Dumitrescu was piloting the ’plane from Vienna to Paris for an engine overhaul prior . to the departure for Australia. I was sitting at the back seat controls. When over the Rhine we struck a heavy cloud fog, about a thousand feet up. Suddenly near Buhl, in Baden, through the mist loomed up a large obstacle, apparently a mountain. Dumitrescu nosed the machine upwards. but the angle was too great and the ’plane went into a tail spin. “I attempted to regain control, but was unsuccessful, so I jumped out and landed with a parachute. Dumitrescu crashed to his death.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1935, Page 7
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