The Archive · 1931

Planes Motor Exploded Uta, USSR, Sept. 13

M, Marcel Doret, is the sole aura viver of the ill-fated attempt of the rear silver French monoplane, Hyphen It, to make a non-stop fight from Paris to Tokyo, The aviators, who were 160 miles south of the Trans-Siberian Toute, were trying to find their way back their course when suddenly the {50 horse power Hispana motor of the Dewottine monoplane exploded.

Int. "Doret' said" that Mesa. Lo' Brix pilot, and. Mesmi, mechanic, were a0'serlously hurt. in the explosion that in al probability they' were hilled even before the felt to earth, M. Doret was able to lane, in which they were trapped,

ump in bie parachute to safety, hus missing dhe fate which claimed the lives of Messrs. Lo Brix" and

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