AIRSHIP WRECKED
FRENCH CRAFT LOST CREW OF EIGHT SAVED PILOT’S PRESENCE OF MIND [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.] Received Nov. 16, 9.10 p.m. LONDON, Nov . 15. The French naval airship VlO, which set out last night to seek for the German flying boat, the Do.X, which had left England for France and had not answered the wireless signals, crashed near the base at Rocheford early this morning.
Following a heavy escape of gas an explosion occurred, but the crew of eight were saved by the pilot’s presence of mind in shutting off the engines and throwing over such ballast as possible in order to delay the fall. The ship hit the ground with such force that it became a tangled mtss of metal and fabric.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 425, 17 November 1930, Page 7
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