Flyer Is Killed As Plane Falls At Dayton Meet.
Capt. Burt E. Skeel, of Selfridge Field, Michigan, Dies in Crash.
Accident Dims Fete
Pall of Gloom Thrown Over Concluding Ceremonies by Fatal Mishap.
By Associated Press.
Dayton,Ohio, October 4, 1924., ---- Capt. Burt E. Skeel, commander of the twenty-seventh squadron of the first United States Army Air pursuit group,Selfridge Field, Mount Clemons,Michigan, fell to his death from a altitude variously estimated at between 500 and 1,000. feet at Wilbur Wright Field today as he was preparing to swing into a flying start in the Pulitzer race, the last event of the international air races.
Forty thousand spectators saw Skeel's plane break into pieces and fall from the sky.As splinters rained down, Lieut.Brookley, of McCook Field, shot his Curtiss racer over the spot where his fellow flyer's body lay imbedded fifteen feet in the soft clay.and so on into the race.
Mills Wins Race
Lieut. H.H. Mills, flying a Verville-Sperry racer, won the race,traveling the 200 kilometer course at the rate of 216.55 miles an hour.This is almost thirty miles an hour less than the best previous mark, made last year at St. Louis by Lieut. A. J. Williams , of the Navy, who traveled 243.68 miles an hour.
Lieut. Wendell H. Brookley, of McCook Field, was second, setting a speed of 214.45 an hour. He was in a Curtis R-6 racer.
Capt. Skeel's death,the first fatality of the races this year and the initial one in the Pulitzer race since it had been contested threw a pall of gloom over the concluding ceremonies of the air races.
All social events including the formal presentation of prizes to the winners, which were to have taken place tonight were cancelled.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the United States air service and Brig. Gen. William M. Mitchell, assistant chief, saw the Skeel crash and went immediately to the scene. Gen. Patrick said he had no statement to make concerning it. According to army regulations, a board of inquiry will be appointed.
Transcribed by JMB
Capt. Burt E. Skeel, of Selfridge Field, Michigan, Dies in Crash.
Accident Dims Fete
Pall of Gloom Thrown Over Concluding Ceremonies by Fatal Mishap.
By Associated Press.
Dayton,Ohio, October 4, 1924., ---- Capt. Burt E. Skeel, commander of the twenty-seventh squadron of the first United States Army Air pursuit group,Selfridge Field, Mount Clemons,Michigan, fell to his death from a altitude variously estimated at between 500 and 1,000. feet at Wilbur Wright Field today as he was preparing to swing into a flying start in the Pulitzer race, the last event of the international air races.
Forty thousand spectators saw Skeel's plane break into pieces and fall from the sky.As splinters rained down, Lieut.Brookley, of McCook Field, shot his Curtiss racer over the spot where his fellow flyer's body lay imbedded fifteen feet in the soft clay.and so on into the race.
Mills Wins Race
Lieut. H.H. Mills, flying a Verville-Sperry racer, won the race,traveling the 200 kilometer course at the rate of 216.55 miles an hour.This is almost thirty miles an hour less than the best previous mark, made last year at St. Louis by Lieut. A. J. Williams , of the Navy, who traveled 243.68 miles an hour.
Lieut. Wendell H. Brookley, of McCook Field, was second, setting a speed of 214.45 an hour. He was in a Curtis R-6 racer.
Capt. Skeel's death,the first fatality of the races this year and the initial one in the Pulitzer race since it had been contested threw a pall of gloom over the concluding ceremonies of the air races.
All social events including the formal presentation of prizes to the winners, which were to have taken place tonight were cancelled.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the United States air service and Brig. Gen. William M. Mitchell, assistant chief, saw the Skeel crash and went immediately to the scene. Gen. Patrick said he had no statement to make concerning it. According to army regulations, a board of inquiry will be appointed.
Transcribed by JMB
Flyer Is Killed As Plane Falls At Dayton Meet.
Capt. Burt E. Skeel, of Selfridge Field, Michigan, Dies in Crash.
Accident Dims Fete
Pall of Gloom Thrown Over Concluding Ceremonies by Fatal Mishap.
By Associated Press.
Dayton,Ohio, October 4, 1924., ---- Capt. Burt E. Skeel, commander of the twenty-seventh squadron of the first United States Army Air pursuit group,Selfridge Field, Mount Clemons,Michigan, fell to his death from a altitude variously estimated at between 500 and 1,000. feet at Wilbur Wright Field today as he was preparing to swing into a flying start in the Pulitzer race, the last event of the international air races.
Forty thousand spectators saw Skeel's plane break into pieces and fall from the sky.As splinters rained down, Lieut.Brookley, of McCook Field, shot his Curtiss racer over the spot where his fellow flyer's body lay imbedded fifteen feet in the soft clay.and so on into the race.
Mills Wins Race
Lieut. H.H. Mills, flying a Verville-Sperry racer, won the race,traveling the 200 kilometer course at the rate of 216.55 miles an hour.This is almost thirty miles an hour less than the best previous mark, made last year at St. Louis by Lieut. A. J. Williams , of the Navy, who traveled 243.68 miles an hour.
Lieut. Wendell H. Brookley, of McCook Field, was second, setting a speed of 214.45 an hour. He was in a Curtis R-6 racer.
Capt. Skeel's death,the first fatality of the races this year and the initial one in the Pulitzer race since it had been contested threw a pall of gloom over the concluding ceremonies of the air races.
All social events including the formal presentation of prizes to the winners, which were to have taken place tonight were cancelled.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the United States air service and Brig. Gen. William M. Mitchell, assistant chief, saw the Skeel crash and went immediately to the scene. Gen. Patrick said he had no statement to make concerning it. According to army regulations, a board of inquiry will be appointed.
Transcribed by JMB
Capt. Burt E. Skeel, of Selfridge Field, Michigan, Dies in Crash.
Accident Dims Fete
Pall of Gloom Thrown Over Concluding Ceremonies by Fatal Mishap.
By Associated Press.
Dayton,Ohio, October 4, 1924., ---- Capt. Burt E. Skeel, commander of the twenty-seventh squadron of the first United States Army Air pursuit group,Selfridge Field, Mount Clemons,Michigan, fell to his death from a altitude variously estimated at between 500 and 1,000. feet at Wilbur Wright Field today as he was preparing to swing into a flying start in the Pulitzer race, the last event of the international air races.
Forty thousand spectators saw Skeel's plane break into pieces and fall from the sky.As splinters rained down, Lieut.Brookley, of McCook Field, shot his Curtiss racer over the spot where his fellow flyer's body lay imbedded fifteen feet in the soft clay.and so on into the race.
Mills Wins Race
Lieut. H.H. Mills, flying a Verville-Sperry racer, won the race,traveling the 200 kilometer course at the rate of 216.55 miles an hour.This is almost thirty miles an hour less than the best previous mark, made last year at St. Louis by Lieut. A. J. Williams , of the Navy, who traveled 243.68 miles an hour.
Lieut. Wendell H. Brookley, of McCook Field, was second, setting a speed of 214.45 an hour. He was in a Curtis R-6 racer.
Capt. Skeel's death,the first fatality of the races this year and the initial one in the Pulitzer race since it had been contested threw a pall of gloom over the concluding ceremonies of the air races.
All social events including the formal presentation of prizes to the winners, which were to have taken place tonight were cancelled.
Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the United States air service and Brig. Gen. William M. Mitchell, assistant chief, saw the Skeel crash and went immediately to the scene. Gen. Patrick said he had no statement to make concerning it. According to army regulations, a board of inquiry will be appointed.
Transcribed by JMB
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