The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-19
ACCIDENTS STOP
CHICAGO FLYER
Aviator Who Successfully Flew
Across English Channel Fails
TO Reach London.
BROKEN MOTOR FORCES
DESCENT OF M0lSSAAT
Daring American Views Loss
Lightly, and Expects to Re
sume Trip Soon.

CHATHAM, Eng, Aug, 1s.-Two ac'
cidents to his monoplane today proughC
down to earth the American aviator,
John b Mossant, who yesterday mduo
n remarkable fight across the Engl'sh
channel with a passenger IN an aItenpI
to hv from Paris TO London. loh'RhC
Moissant IS aeroplane lies paftlalIy
wrecked in field near Hainham, near
Kent some thirty miles from London.
BY a remarkable stroke of fortune:
Moissnnt and his mechanlclan, Alpcrl
Filcux. escaped unhurt. But the ma
chine came heavily to the grouhu
alighting in Il narrow space; pahhcu
high with earth and piles OIL ;m nt"Mim
brick There it is likely 10 remain I
ntjI it can be removed plecemcal ana
refttcd with parts now, on their way
from Paris to replace those that were
broken by the fall. r.,
Moissant resumed his flight from III.
manstone at 4 so a, m. today, but NJ
O clock he was obliged 10 descend near
SittIngbourne to Ak small pin which
had become displaced. lie then re-
ascended but before he had gone many
miles IL connecting rod broke forelng
HIM TO use the planes to reach the
ground.
4 resumption Of the flight before to-
morrow IS lmprODaDlc,
The good fortune which accompanied
Moissant in the earlier stages of has
fight from Paris and III his record.
breaking Journey across the channel
with Il passenger seems to have desert
ed him with bis arrival on English
soil.
Motor defects in the acropIanc, which
Yesterday had worked without Slp,
forced him TO make two successive land
h.,lf
curse between London and Tllman.
stone. whence he nsccndcd Mt l:JO
clock this morning.
Narrow Escape.
His first descent. mile from Sittan-
borne about thirty five miles from Lon
don, was due To the displacement of
small pin i'm the mechanism cntaillDg I'm
immediate descent. He narrowly cs-
capped disaster i'm the landing, Just MISS
ing the mouth of deep pit, a fall into
which would have meant death foG the
aviator and his mcchanician. Repairs
to the machine detained him nearly
three hours, He then made a second
start, but had scarcely covered ten
miles when second accident brought
him down at Bainham, Kent. \ rod
connecting up the driving gear of the
aeroplane was fractured, stopping the
engine and forcing the Chlragoan TO
plane down Immediately to the ground.
He landed in field, but only skillful
It's plugging into Il clump of trees.
Molssant made an abrupt turn to
escape these and the machine came
down heavily breaking the chassis and
smashing blade of the propeller.
Moissant and his mechancian climbed
out unlniiurcd but on looking over the
damage found that the repairs could
not be accomplished on the spot and
that they must wait for new parts, for
which they immediately telegraphed To
Paris.
In Awkward Position.
The machine of Moissant at pres
ept lies in an awkward position, every
foot of the garden where the landing
was made presenting such obstacles that
Molssant and the experts who had gath
cred TO inspect the monopIane can
scarcely conceive how he managed 10
descend without serious injury 20 him.
self and his mechanician
The garden in which the machine lies
IS 10 more than 100 feet square. at
the bottom of an abandoned brick ward.
In front of the machine Is a bank OF
earth and all about it are piles Of brok-
EN- brick and earth, any one of which
would have smashed the machine to
fragments If encountered during the
landing.
And TO ascend from il seems impos-
sible Even to get the monoplane out
would be difhcult. The little American
aviator, however, makes light of all
+ngGestions of trouble and saws he and
f1IcuX VIII find way out of the diAi
Guilty lie protests against the report
that he rs OF Spanish descent and i'm
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