WAR ACE KILLED.
Collision in Mid-air While Stunting. MONTLHERY, April 8. Captain Jean Grillot, one of France’s most distinguished airmen and war aces, who brought down five enemy planes in single combat in the war and was six times cited in army orders, was killed here in a collision with another plane. Captain Grillot, flying solo, was carrying cut aerobatic exercises at a height of 2400 feet when he crashed into another plane flown by SergeantInstructor Benneton. Both planes crashed to the ground, and though Sergeant Benneton tried to use his parachute, it failed to open, and both airmen were killed. Captain Grillot, who was forty, was educated at Oxford, and joined the French Dragoons in 1914. After brilliant exploits as a cavalry trooper, he became a pilot in the famous 79th Air Squadron. which included among its officers Alain Gerbault, the “ lone yachtsman.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20282, 17 April 1934, Page 1
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