Word: salways
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hour and a half later, groping blindly through the pea-soup atmosphere over Jersey City, narrowly missing rooftops. Pilot John Salway saw a chance to land in a meadow, saw too late the wires that marked it as the county's 200-acre power plant. A wingtip sheared a 132,000-volt wire. A flash, a crash, a geyser of flaming gasoline ended the episode...
Electrocuted or burned to death: Pilot Salway; Count Henri de la Vaulx, pioneer airman, President of Federation Aeronautique Internationale; Mrs. Mary E. Gallagher Williams of Providence, R. I.: Arthur V. Conklin of Huntington...
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