Show afire in the seyl i with flames shooting up to a height 60 50 feet a paris aeroplane on patrol duty dived to earth just at nightfall recently the passenger threw himself from the machine tailing falling ten feet on to the root roof of a house the pilot benoit came doy dov a with the machine but was burred burned to death before he could bo be rescued thousands of people witnessed the accident which occurred over the densely populated quarter of the tha machine took fire at a height of feet it was then a mile from tho the issy aerodrome with remarkable coolness benoit attempted to into the issy ground but was not high enough he managed however to swing the blazing machine down to the waste land close by the aeroplane narrowly missing the roofs of the houses and signal posts on the railroad as it dived earthwards eath wards amidst the cries of the horrified onlookers |