Italian Contestant for Schneider Cup Killed in Trial Rome, Aug. 23.
Captain Giuseppe Motto, a member of the Italian Schneider Cup team, war testing a Macchi hush-hush' seaplane to-day, which has been entered for the race, when he crashed in Lake Garda, near Desnenzano, and was drowned.
captain Motto was one of the most brilliant air pilots in Italy. He had been testing the speed seaplane only a few minutes when, of a few hundred feet, it dived with terrific velocity and hit the surface of the lake. Both the machine and the pilot disappeared, leaving no trace, One theory of the disaster is that Captain Motto was overcome by the gasoline fumes from his motor, in a similar manner to It, Alford Williams, the American airman, who was rendered unconscious when testing his Schneidey Cup machine, the Merehury Racer, near New York on August 21.—Reuter,
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