London, Sept, 7.
Before the horrified gaze of thou-Sands of holiday-makers at Blackpool this" afternoon, the pilot of aeroplane and 'a woman. passenger etashed to their death, while a woman, pedestrian was wreckage of the machine, The tragedy occurred during tne course of a performance put on by Sir Alan Cobham's flying circus, Two of the machines belonging to the circus suddenly came into colli-* sion, following which one went into nose dive and crashed, bursting into flames and setting fire to a house.
'A woman, who had been a pass-tenger in the falling plane, jumped from the machine as it started falling, but she was killed instantly when she fell into a tree, The pilot, Captain R. W. Patrick Stewart, a Londoner, perished in the crash. The machine burst into flames fon the impact and set fire to a house. but firemen rushed to the scene and speedily extinguished the blaze, Falling wreckage of the aeroplane struck a woman walking in the street, killing her instantly.
The pilot -of the other machine, despite the fact that the plane had been badly damaged, managed to make a safe Janding—Reuter.
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