U.S.A. AIR TRAGEDY
TWO MEN KILLED
WHILE MOORING DIRIGIBLE
By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn, VANCOUVER, May 11.
A report from Camp Kearney, California, states that two members of the ground crew, when attempting to moor the world’s largest dirigible, Akron, were swept into the air to-day by the mooring ropes, lost their grip, fell and were killed.
The Akron left Lakehurst, New Jersey, at 6 a.m. on Sunday and was delayed by stormy weather.
A TERRIBLE ORDEAL
VANCOUVER, May 11.
Robert Edfall and a man named Henton were those killed. A third man, Bud Cowart, managed to clamp his feet against a knot in the rope and held on while the crew tried to lower the ship, which had been caught by a gust of wind. For two hours Cowart clung to the rope with the wooden hand-grip used by the ground crew to hold the landing cables with. The Akron was flying at an altitude of 2,000 feet in bumpy air. Finally he was hauled into the Akron by members of the crew who opened the cockpit to hoist him up hand over hand.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 118, 13 May 1932, Page 7
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