Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford...
Died. Maurice Bokanowski, 49, French Minister of Commerce and Aviation; in an airplane crash; near Toul, France (see page...
...engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...
...floating last week off the Fugloe Islands, north of Norway, was taken to be conclusive evidence that Capt. Roald Amundsen, Capt. Rene Gilbaud and their four companions were dead. The condition of the pontoon indicated that it had been torn from Capt. Amundsen's seaplane by a sea crash...
Died. Major Carlo P. del Prete, Rome-Brazil flyer (TIME, July 16); following the amputation of his right leg, injured in an airplane crash; in Rio de Janeiro Brazil...