THREE KILLED.
AN AEROPLANE CRASH. MACHINE NOSE DIVES. Ev Telegraph—Press Associatioa— Copyright. A\'strftlian grid X.7j. Cnbifl Association. (Received May 23, 2.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 23. An aviation mishaji rchuited in Hubei; Ross, principal in the Shaw, Rosa Engineering and Aviation Company, and Cyril 'Harris, sustaining fatal injuries. Ross was piloting two pasNengers on a pleasure flight in an Avro aeroplane which nose-dived, the propeller becoming entangled in the electric light w ires whilst the machine was being "righted. DROPPED IN AIR CURRENT. Australian and X.X. Cable Association. (Received May 23, 1.6 p.m.) Mies Jessie Dorman, who was injured in the aeroplane accident, has succumb■Xhe. machine suddenly dived from a height of two hundred feet, and red into a backyard. A boy playing in the vard had a narrow escape. . .- Maior Ross, one oi the victims, served throughout the war in. Lae lvoval Air Force. The theorv is that the aeroplane struck a current of air and. dropped, but had insufficient height to soar Ro'js a botlv hod to be out out of the debris.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16433, 23 May 1921, Page 8
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