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AVIATORS KILLED 'PLANE FALLS SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET (A and N.Z.) NEW YORK, April 26. Lieut.-Commander Noel Davis and Lieutenant Stanton Wooster were killed when the giant aeroplane American Legion, in which they intended shortly to attempt the Paris flight, crashed near Messina, Virginia. The machine became unnMnageable and fell several hundred feet when the airmen were trying to lift the full trans-Atlantic load of gasoline. The machine landed in a marsh. Both airmen died in five inches of water, several people who enfered the water and mud having no time to save them. This is the fourth in a series of mishaps to trans-Atlantic fliers, commencing with the disaster to Captain Rene Fonck’s plane in 1926, in which two were killed, since when Lieut. Byrd has been injured and Lieut. Chamberlain recently had a narrow escape.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19826, 28 April 1927, Page 7
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