Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1910 — MOISSANT HAS A FALL [ARTICLE]

MOISSANT HAS A FALL

Bad Luck Still Pursues the Daring American Birdman. \ ■ Moissant’s aers]?lane flight from Paris to London, in which he carried a passenger over the English channel, came to a disastrous ending, when, within twenty-seven miles of his goal, a gust of wind overturned the aeroplane and sent it to the ground a tangled wreck. Soon after the ascent the craft began to lurch and then careened as another shifting gust bore it away in another direction. Moissant could be seen struggling with all his dexterity to aright it, but to no avail. In another instant the spectators were horrified to. see the aeroplane come hurtling through the air like a wounded bird. It struck squarely but Moissant and his mechanician were on top of the wreckage and escaped what otherwise would have been instant death. ,