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...Another Pole, less fortunate, was Lieutenant Kasimir Szalas, Polish army aviator, who flew from Warsaw to sunny, iridescent Bagdad, only to be killed when his Fokker crashed at the southern airdrome. Included in the casualties tragically terminating this 2,438-mile flight were co-pilot Lieutenant Kalina and Mechanic Klosinek, who were both injured. The trio had planned to return on the following...
...Charles Burton Robbins, Assistant Secretary of War, attempted to change seats with a mechanic in a trimotored Fokker transport plane, lost his balance, was thrown to the floor of the cabin, suffered a fractured collarbone, two broken ribs. The accident occurred during a flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Washington...
Pilot Drew flew the Fokker back to Croyden, where it was temporarily held, by order of the British Air Ministry. Pilot Drew went out on the tugboat Lady Brassy and peered at mocking Channel wavelets. Pilot Drew left the Lady Brassy and entrained for Brussels...
Dutch officials of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation said indignantly that their doors were intentionally designed so that the blast of air would make it absolutely impossible for them to be opened in flight, except by the united efforts of two very strong...
Seemingly no one reflected that there were at least four men in the Loewenstein Fokker or attached importance to the fact that the lock on the door was found broken...