AIR PILOT ARRESTED
FATAL FALL INTO CROWD CHARGE OF AIURDER LAID NEW YORK, April 30. A message from Fayetteville, Tenpilot has been arrested on a charge of others, when his machine crashed murder. Afilton Colvert, a flying circus pilot, is under arrest following the deaths of eight persons, and injuries to 16 pie way from his path. When 50ft into a crowd of spectators. While descending to a landing field which swarmed with spectators, Colvert purposely flew low to frighten tho peostriking the crowd with deadly effect, above tho ground tho acroplano suddenly dropped, its whirling propeller striking the crowd with dealy n ”ect. An angry mob seized and would have lynched him but for the aid of the police. Feeling is running very high. Three of the injured are likely to die, which would raise the deathroll to 11. Colvert said he encountered an air pocket.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 8
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