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Show YOUTHFUL AVIATOR HAS NARROW ESCAPE Fafnuru Fish Rights Falling Machine Ovci Spot Where Hoxscy Was Killed. By International News Service. LOS ANOELES, Jan. :.'i Farnurn Fish, tlie youngest aviator in the world, ss cape.l death today by a tnlrarlo, th enactment nf tin- startling drams having hav-ing for lis settlns; the location, altitude and Fomewirii of di.- atmospheric conditions con-ditions that obtained when Aroh Hoxsov wan hilled at Dominquez fleld at last yenr's meet. The youth, who lia.s been pilotlna l'1'-'' v riKht bUdunr without mis'nup, had been saiiinc around in f-nsv circles. From a 1000 foot altitude he was suddenly .seen to fail, it wa.s an untfoverned plunee of more tlian 100 feel and the slant white flyer and the liclpWs aviator, with his hand upon an Impotent lever, formed precisely the picture made by Boxsey. "My God, he's s;one!" exrlaiined Roy KnahcnFiiu. . manager of the Wi-icht aviators, avi-ators, covering his eyes. Many others were, of the same conviction. Hut as abruptly as ho bad departed from the nearly horizontal sailing into this precipitous plunge, he righted himself, him-self, or Providence did it for him. and the ..linir (,f safety having been regained he circled upon a gradual plane to the Sold. The seventeen-year-old aviator vnms: unperturbed bj the incident when he reached earth agrain To those who crowded about him. offering their eon-err. eon-err. ituL tie.ns over his narrow escape, ho expressed v "hd.-ri:,.-nl at their anxiety and seemed not to appreciate lil- nearness near-ness to death Robert Kit. ,11. flying a Wright biplane met with an accident which might have proed fatal. L'lton was descending, when In- .suddenly lost ti t ir. I of his machine ma-chine when within llfty feet of the ground, and plunged nose-forward to earth Tin- biplane was wru ked, but LClton escaped Injury. Todaya events at the meet were not especially spectacular aside from the two near-accidents and were devoid of record-m.'iklnK. Endurance flights, speed fligts and spiral dips from moderately high altitudes entertained the 26,000 odd spectat 1 ire. |