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Show BEACHEY FALLS TO HIS DEATH. Fair Visitors Witness Tragic End of Career of Daring Aviator. San Francisco. The spectacular career ca-reer of Lincoln Beachey, one of the most daring of American aviators, was ended Sunday when he fell to his death at the Panama-Pacific exposition exposi-tion in sight of thousands of spectators. specta-tors. The fatal fall was attributed to the fact that Beachey intrusted his life for the first time to a new monoplane. The machine was at an altitude of about 3,000 feet when Beachey shut off his power. For several seconds it dropped head on for the earth and then the aviator grasped his control lever to adjust the planes for the graceful descent which had characterized character-ized his previous flights. At that point the wings crumpled like a collapsed col-lapsed umbrella and the aeroplane, turning over and over in its fall, plunged into San Francisco bay, narrowly nar-rowly missing a vessel lying at the government transport docks. Beachey's body was recovered about two hours after the accident. Divers, searching the shallow inshore in-shore waters of the bay, found the crushed form of the airman entangled in the twisted rods and torn canvas of the machine. Doctors believe Beachey was slightly slight-ly injured by the fall, and was drowned when he was pinned underneath under-neath the wrecked machine. |