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20,000 SEE ARMY FLYER KILLED; PLANE HITS TREE
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Lieut. Blaney, Hartford Race Victim, Served With Troops on Rhine and Also in Philippines.

By the Associated Press.

HARTFORD, Conn., November 13. - Lieut. John E. Blaney, Army flyer from Mitchel Field, Long Island, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon at Brainard Municipal Field here while taking part in an aviation meet. His plane struck a tree and crashed when about to land.

Lieut. Blaney was completing the third lap of the race, and flew close to the ground. He was flying about one hundred and forty miles an hour when the plane hit the tree. He was instantly killed. His gasoline tank took fire and immediately the plane was a blazing mass.

Officers from Mitchel Field decided that the accident was due to a miscalculation on the part of the aviator. Twenty thousand spectators at the aviation meet saw the crash.
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MINEOLA, N.Y., November 13. - Lieut. John E. Blaney, killed yesterday in an airplane accident at Hartford, Con., served with the army of occupation in Germany and also in the Philippines. He had been commander of the 5th Observation Squadron at Mitchel Field since last March. He leaves a wife, who lives in Long Beach, Calif.

Transcribed from unknown newspaper and date:

20,000 SEE ARMY FLYER KILLED; PLANE HITS TREE
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Lieut. Blaney, Hartford Race Victim, Served With Troops on Rhine and Also in Philippines.

By the Associated Press.

HARTFORD, Conn., November 13. - Lieut. John E. Blaney, Army flyer from Mitchel Field, Long Island, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon at Brainard Municipal Field here while taking part in an aviation meet. His plane struck a tree and crashed when about to land.

Lieut. Blaney was completing the third lap of the race, and flew close to the ground. He was flying about one hundred and forty miles an hour when the plane hit the tree. He was instantly killed. His gasoline tank took fire and immediately the plane was a blazing mass.

Officers from Mitchel Field decided that the accident was due to a miscalculation on the part of the aviator. Twenty thousand spectators at the aviation meet saw the crash.
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MINEOLA, N.Y., November 13. - Lieut. John E. Blaney, killed yesterday in an airplane accident at Hartford, Con., served with the army of occupation in Germany and also in the Philippines. He had been commander of the 5th Observation Squadron at Mitchel Field since last March. He leaves a wife, who lives in Long Beach, Calif.