TOLL OF THE AIR
ELEVEN LIVES LOST CRASHES IN AMERICA NEW YORK, Aug. 9. Week-end air crashes took a toll of eleven li- es in the United States. Four passengers and two pilots were killed at Cincinnati (Ohio) when a trimotored air liner crashed from a 300 feet altitude after one motor failed. Four men were burned to death at Lynchburg (Virginia) when a cabin monoplane hit trees in landing. At Westchester (Pennsylvania) a youth, while taking his first flight, was killed, and the pilot was critically injured when the ’plane plunged with a dead motor from 20C feet.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 188, 11 August 1931, Page 7
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99TOLL OF THE AIR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 188, 11 August 1931, Page 7
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