LEVINE CRASHES.
IN VINEYARD IN ROME. MISS COLUMBIA WRECKED. END OF HER CAREER FEARED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.l ROME, October 4. When calling on Mussolini, Levine, the American airman, expressed a wish when en route to Bucharest to fly over Mussolini's villa and drop a present for the new baby. Mussolini was most delighted, communicated with his daughter and. asked her to spread sheets on the housetop to render it dislinguishablc. The attempt was disastrous. The Miss Columbia developed engine trouble and crashed in a vineyard on the outskirts of Rome and wrecked the landing gear, propcllor, and engine.
The occupants, including Prince Louis of Bourbon, had wonderful escapes, and were unhurt.. It is feared this will end Miss Columbia's career, but Levine has arranged to go to Paris for repairs. Levine said: "But for Captain Ilinchclii't'e's wonderful piloting we would all be dead. We could have landed safely if there had been any clear ground, but there wasn't."
Prince Louis of Bourbon emerged from the cockpit and said: "There already."
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17224, 6 October 1927, Page 8
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