German Pilot Seriously Hurt When Wing Drops Off Nanking, Aug. 23.
A German air pilot is lying at] death's door and his Junkers plane Samaged as a result of an accident at the Ming Tombs Aerodrome yes-lay morning. The machine, which was one of a consignment of military airplanes ordered by the Aviation Administration of the Ministry of War from Germany, only reached Nanking three day?
At IL o'clock yesterday morning, the German pilot, taking the plane: out for a trial fight, ascended to a height of 50 feet when suddenly a birring noise was heard from the right wing. After eire the aerodrome and wailing of the Capital Reconstruc~ tion Commission, the right wing was completely severed from the plane, which immediately crashed down the tennis court east of the Com mission building, rushed to, the Central Hospital. The plane which cost $150,000 was wrecked beyond repair—Kuo Min,
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