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Two Skylarking Nove Dive to Death in Biplane
Mineola Long Island May morning fatal crash after two enlisted Signal Corps men Merritt and Spilena allegedly seized a government L W F biplane and flew for about half an hour reaching 3000 feet. The machine then plunged from 1500 feet and burst on impact, killing both youths instantly and wrecking the aircraft valued at $12000. The incident prompted a Washington inquiry into whether the men acted with or without authority and how such access to planes was permitted at the aviation field.
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Mineola
S. 1
United States Army
Aviation
Signal Corps
Hempstead Plains
Ransom JH Merritt
Cornell University
Lockport
N. Y
Anthony P. Spilena
Roosevelt
Tiple
Walter G. Kilner
Aviation Corps
Merritt
Rth
Sianal
Spilena
American Legion
Spilona
Kilner
A. Coyle
C. H. Reynolds
Spiilena
Glen Curtiss
Clifford B. Harwon
Garden City
Weetbury
East Williston
Alr Tong
Earth
Spliena
Torrne
Ortceri
Capudn EA. Rader
Martain
J. W. Butts
Washington