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Show AVIATOR AND HIS ' i MECHANIC HILLED JOHA.VN18THAU Oersneay. June 18. Heir fichendel. who on Tuesday established estab-lished a Germs altitude record of 694 feet In an aeroplane, fell last evening with his mechanic. Voee. and both were Instantly killed, gchendsl was trying to eclipse the world's altitude reoord with a passenger. The aviator, who waa practically prac-tically a beginner, rose tn a Dottier mono, plena snd had reached a helnht of SW) fet when the monoplane assumed a vertical ver-tical position, and It la believed that Schendel wss trying to slide to tha earth with 1ila motor shut off. - Ho great waa the velocity of the fall thai the prow of the machine waa buried In the earth. The bodies of Schendel and. Vosa were frightfully mantled. |