IN THE AIR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16507, 7 August 1919, Page 3

IN THE AIR.

I COLLAPSE OF BIG MACHINE. I FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. : By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. ■ I ROME, August 4. ! A Caproni aeroplane, flying from Venice to Milan, crashed 4000 feet, and 14 people were killed. LONDON, Aug. 4. ' The Times’ Milan correspondent i states that the aeroplane disaster has robbed Italian journalism of sonic of its greatest euitors. All the passengers were journalists. After a record flight of 170 miles in 107 minutes, the machine • suddenly nose-dived. Realising the hopelessness of the position the passengers lumped : one after another. Their hodiA, wero ■ not recognisable.—'limes Sendee. ,