’PLANE PLUNGES TO EARTH; TWO MEET DEATH.
ONLY NEGRO WOMAN AVIATOR IN U.S. IS KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N-Z. Cable Association. (Received May 1. 12.55 p.m.) VANCOUVER, April 30. At. Jacksonville, Florida, Bessie Coleman, said to have been the only negro woman aviator, and William Wills, her white publicity agent, were killed today when an airplane turned over and fell two thousand feet during a practice flight for an exhibition scheduled for to-morrow.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17835, 1 May 1926, Page 2
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