Canton, June 26, When something went "wrong with the motor, training plane No. 24, caught fire' yesterday morning, and fell in flames. Pilot Chang Oitung. endeavoured to make a hasty landing, but there was' not time, nor. was there time for the three who went for their last ride to jump, although seemingly all three had parachutes when they went aloft. Pilot Chang and. his two students, must have been burned to -death before their machine hit the ground, and their bodies were burned to a crisp.
Livery morning plane 24 makes the same aerial' circuit as a part the regular course of instruc tion, of. the Aviation School. Te was. when over Wongfakong, burial place of the 72 Heroes that the mishap occurred, and it was a strange coincident that the plane should. have fallen in the plot reserved for the burial of deceased members @f the Aviation Servi 'The deceased instructor-pilot was fa graduate of a Canadian school of aviation, Besides holding tion on' the teaching staff in the Canton government, school, he was one of the officers of the institution.
'Aborigines from Keangsi want their. young men to learn to fly. 'These oldest inhabitants' come from a remote spot of the zone in which Kuangtung soldiers have been late-carrying on warfare, and until the Canton planes began making daily scouting trips they had never seen on aircraft, Now and again the aviators had to make forced Jandings in the land of the Yiu tribe, who at first mistook them for either gods or devils, but, growing more used to the birdman, got not only friendly with them, but grew curious to know all about these strange contraptions that can soar ike birds that whole villages turned out to have a look and to ask countless. questions about airplanes fand what makes them go. So it has come. to bags, that—the Yiu elders have sent in a request that some of their young bue shall be enrolled at the Canton School of Aviation for the. regular rrse of instruction,
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