Plane with Fiancee on Board Overturned Mexico City, Feb, Colonel Lindbergh, while flying with his fianede, Miss Morrow, to-Jday, crashed when landing.
Hie was flying over Mexico showing his fiancee the wonderful view from the air. They landed after a three-hour fight, but whea the plane, touched the ground the of-side wheel collapsed, the machine feompletely overturning. Both, how over, escaped uninjured.
Colonel Lindbergh is reported io have previously promised his fatur> father-in-law, the American Minis for, Mr. Dwight Morrow, that this would be his last flight.
Tt was later discovered that Colonel Lindbergh dislocated his shoulder when his plane overturned, Tt has been reset and the Colonel has been ordered to bed.
Colonel Lindbergh's accident was apparently due to the failure of mechanics to roplnce the cotter-pin in the axle of the right wheel, which consequently came off when the machine took off from the ground.
Becoming aware of the danger, Colonel Lindbergh warned his, ficnese of it, piled cushions about her, and exhausted the petrol to prevent an explosion, Then he made very skilful landing: on one wheel which, however, broke under the strain, Mexican army officers, acting under the orders of their War Office, destroyed all recors of the accident made by swarms of news and cinema
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