HIS LAST “STUNT.”
Airman Commits Suicide Spectacularly. PRAGUE, April 12. Ordered by physicians to give up flying, a crack airman committed suicide in a spectacular manner. Jan Zon/iek, a stunt pilot, who, on account cf a weak heart, had recently been permanently transferred from active flying to office work, crept secretly into his aeroplane on the flying field. After cruising for a quarter of an hour over the scene of his former ; etivities, he suddenly put his plane into a perpendicular nose dive and was killed instantly in the crash.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 1
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90HIS LAST “STUNT.” Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 1
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