Red Army Loses One of Its Leading Pilots From Our Own Corresponglent, Harbin, Feb. 29.
At "Chita recently, Commandant Koshelenko of "the Aero Section, sth Red Army lost his lifo' in an aeroplane fatality. The accident happened in the afternoon at 2.15. The pilot was flying over the town at an altitude of 6,000 feet when the aiachine suddenly plunged to earth, A technical commission which sat recently decided thet the accident has not been onused by engine trouble. Tt is thought. that the aviator had a heart attack or fainted, The deceased was considered {o be one of the best aviators in the Soviet Army, on the out. break of the war he was studying at the Moscow Aero School, and was one of a number of pupils sent to France in 1917 to study military aeronautics, Fol. lowing the Russian coup @etat in 1017 all Russians attending the French Anny Aero. School were asked to join the French Army, He agreed to serve with the French Colonial troops in Attica, Te 1018 he. attamptod to fly from Nice to Tunis, but his machine came down' in the Mediterranean, Subsequently after returning after the war he took part. in Red Army operations against Merkuloff troops at Habarovsk.
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