CRASHED 2000 FEET,
PETROL SUPPLY FAILB. WOMAN AVIATOR INJURED. CO-PILOT KILLED INSTANTLY. (By TMetrrapn —Pres* Assn. —Copyrljrllt.l (Australian Press Association.) (Received June 29, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 28. The noted woman pilot, Mrs Vlo Gentry, .was severely Injured when a plane in which she was attempting an endurance flight plunged 2000 feet when the petrol became exhausted and struck a tree. , i
Airs Gentry is expected to recover, but her co-pilot Jack Ashcraft, the famed dare-devil airman, was killed instantly. i
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17750, 29 June 1929, Page 7
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