WOMAN AIR PILOT.
BARONESS BE LA ROCHE KILLED. Baroness de la Roche, the first ■woman to fly alone, .was killed in an aeroplane accident in Prance on July 18, the machine in which she was a passenger at Le Crotoy. Somme, overturning during a trial flight. The baroness was killed immediately and the pilot died soon atter. Baroness de la Roche’s first solo flight was made in a Voisin biplane at Chalons Camp on October 22, 1909. The next year she gained her pilot’s certificate, and in November, 1913, she carried ■ off the Femina Cup for a 20fcmile flight by a woman. During the war she made .vain efforts to .join the French Air Service. Her career was fraught with more than one accident. In January, 1910, she collided with some trees while landing from a flight and broke a shouldef blade; a more serious disaster occurred in uJly of the same year at the Rheims meeting, when her machine came a terrible crash and her injuries were so serious that she was not expected to recover. While motoring in 1912 she 1 also met with an accident in which she was badly injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 6
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