Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-01
Star of the American Air Pilots Meets Same Fate
 as Moisarlt. 10000 SAW TRAGEDY Dashed to Death From Elevation of 225 Feet-HeId Worlds Re.
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International News Special

International News Special
 l Los Angeles, Cal, Dec 31.-Arcl
 HoXsey, holder of the worlds altitude record for flying and star of the air pilots of America, plunged to earth at the aviation field at 3:12 o'clock this , afternoon from a heighth of 225 feet and was instantly killed. The trag- edy was witnessed by ten thousand
 persons, who had assembled to view the afternoon flying. The actual point of the accident, according to the . biograph, whih registered the various
 elevations Whih he attained, was 225
 feet in the air. Before reaching ahe fatal angle in the air, when he dash /, ed downward, Hoxsey had been glid- ing from an altitude of 1000 feet. 1 The young man had masterly control of his aircraft and under his
 control the most difficult acts of fly-
 'ng seemed simple, His fellow air 1 pilots and men on the course who u1l- derstood the aerial conditions, watch ed him anx. .ously. A stiff north wind was blowing and the air was fill-
 ed dN1th what aeronauts call pockets"
 epocNets."
 1 JusS exactly how the accident befell i fioxsey,9 just how he happened to lose
 control of his mac hne, if that was the
 cause, no one whossaw him fall was
 able to explain, becaA Ase the thing was
 done so quickly as to Hsfy prec .se ob-
 servation, He had been in,sbe air one hour and eight minutes, and shortly 1 before the catastrophe was circl1ng east of the field at the very summ of his days flight.
 He had swung around. seemed to
 poise about mile above ground, per-
 haps mile east of the field At this
 point he struck a glide and came at a
 downward cant of perhaps thirty de-
 grees in line which if protected.
 would have taken him about the mid- dle of back field.
 When he was over the back field about 50 feet northeast from the judges stand, the angle of the descent
 was changed to a deeper one, but ev- en yet he had not reached the danger point so far as observation could de- tect.
 ! Suddenly cry went up from the grandstand and the thousands bank- ed along the fence. They seemed to
 understand vaguely in that instant that tragedy of the air was about
 to be enacted, for the 'airship tipped lfronn it's steep gliding angle and dived
 straight downward.I
 The machine was absolutely wreck ed, the plane and rods of the machine all, being ih 4n unreeognizable tangle. Fifteen mhute tess afler the tragedy the.
 committee scaused the announcement to
 be made that there would be no more l flying for the afternoon, but it would
 be resumed tomorrow.
 l The Egepe9aEyf ac cepted theory, ac-
 cc1Et.eg for the accident, is. that Hox-F
 sey was fighting for control of his
 machine n the tremendous wind, and
 that if he had turned to the right and gone north against t he would have
 succeeded in landing, though he would
 have gone considerably out of the
 field to dolso., Instead of doing, this,
 however. he turned tothe left with the wind not reckoning it's strength per-
 haps and was thus overturned.
 Arch Hoxsey has been flying only l since last July. In his brief career
 he had become one of the greatest air
 pilots in the world. Last Monday he won. the worlds altitude record with flight of 511,474 feet. Yesterday he lagain surpassed any record for altl-s
 tude ever made by amy other man,
 he 'ghth of 10,575 feet.
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