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Show BIRDMAN OF RMY KILLED Lieutenant Love Meets Instant Death at San Diego When Aeroplane Aero-plane Plunges 300 Feet to the Ground Makes Eleventh Death in the Government Service. San Diego, Cal . Sept 4 First Lieu tenant Moss L. Love, signal corps. I" S. A . was Instantly killed today when his aeroplane plunged 200 feet to the ground at the armv aviation school near here Shortly before Hie acrid, . -i " he began to descend from an altitude of approximately 2000 feel When 800 feet from the ground watchers Bay they saw a puff of smoke on the ma chine and it dropped like a shot Eleven Aviators Killed. Washington Sept 4 Eleven avia tors have been killed in the army and navy aviation service since experl ences were started with heavier than-air than-air machines In 1910 ten In the army and one in the navy in aviation the world over. 33"? persons have bBeil killed since 1908. 112 during the pros ent year Love was a native of Vircinia. The exact cause of the accident was not ascertained todav Witnesses Baj the air was absolutely still at the time Insofnr as they could fell ami the machine was gliding to the ground The aeroplane was almost completely wrecked and ihere is small llkllbood that an examlnatloi. of It will dls'lose the cause of the accident Captain A S Cnwan commanding officer at the aviation school, speaking speak-ing of the accident said: ' Lieutenant Love WAS a careful and conservative flyer, not given to taking tak-ing chances of any sort. A board today will Inquire Into the cause of the accident The lieutenant was assigned to duty with the First Aero squadron last April, corning to the San Diego station last June According to the army rOBtCJ the aviator's nearest relatives Is Judge J M Love of Fairfax, Fla. Lieutenant Love ha 1 a pilot's license li-cense from the Aero t'lub of America, Amer-ica, and was preparing lo nice the examination for the ml'Itary license. He was about 33 years od ami not married. |
