AVIATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13353, 18 April 1911, Page 5

AVIATION.

A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS. Pmus Aaaodetise.—Tsle«raiih.-Comrriwhi. • LONDON. April 15. Reuter’s Paris correspondent states that Lieutenant Byasson was crushed to death while monoplaning at Verseilles, through his machine turning a somersault. OTTAWA, April 16. Jack Depries, aa aviator, when land, ng from a flight at Vancouver,, capsized his machine, and sustained a fractured skull. The injuries are expected to prove fatal

BERLIN, April 17. At Dresden, during a competition, in the presence of several thousands of people, a balloon broke loose, and failed to clear a neighbouring gasworks, with the result that it pitched four aeronauts to the ground and terribly injured them.