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AN AIR TRAGEDY
CALLOUSNESS OF CINEMA MEN
Photograph of an Aviator in Agony
PARIS. Saturday.
Considerable- indignation has been
expressed, particularly, by friends and
relatives of the, aviator, Collet, at the
alleged callousness of several camera
men who, when the 'plane crashed,
calmly turned the handles of their ma-
chines and recorded the scene, totally
disregarding the struggles of the pilot
in a vain endeavor to free himself. The
cinema men photographed him slowly
scorching to death. The authorities
have banned the presentation of the
picture in France, and are endeavor-
ing also to stop it in England and
America.
[An' earlier cable stated that air-
man. Leon Collot, made a bet with an
American that he would fly beneath
the span of the Eiffel Tower. He ac-
complished the actual feat, but when
he tried to rise the machine became
entangled in an "aerial" of the wire-
less station, and dropped like a stone
over the Champ de Mars and crashed
through a tree to the lawn below.
Flames broke out, and the pilot was
burned to death, while he was in his
seat in the machine and gripping the levers.
Witnesses of the crash averred that the pilot
made a contract with a foreign cinematograph
firm to fly twice under the span of the Eiffel
Tower, while a parachutist was to
plunge from the second platform of
the tower after the aeroplane's second
passage. A search was being made
for the parachutist, who disappeared
after the accident.]
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