The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-13
EXPLAIN FATAL
 AEROPLANE DIVE
QUICK ASCENT OF MACHINE GAVE TOO MUCH AIR PRESSURE ON
 MACHINES PLANES.
Lieutenant Hazlehurst Objected to As cendlng With the Aviation
 instructor.

W dSnlnStOn, June lZ,-1 ne COlldpS
 of the army aeroplane at College Park,
 Md, last night which resulted in the death of Lieutenant l.. W. Hazlehurst
 br., and the Wright pilot A. l.. Welsh, was due to terrific air pressure on the | aluminium painted canves wings, caus- ed by too sharp turn at full speed
 to ascend, according to the prelimi- nary finding of the army board, which
 today investigated the accident. The board reported orally to Colonel | George Scriyen, acting chief signal
 officer. as follows:
 In his endeavor to succeed Tn the
 altitude climb MT. Welsh started from an elevation of about 150 feet and
 drove the machine toward the ground with the engine running at reduced
 speed in order to give the impetus with which to make his upward climb. l When he reached a point near the | ground from which he was to start the climb, at a terrific speed. Welsh turned on the full power and at the same time turned the machine into ] the air. The angle of ascent was sharp and the speed so great that the machine was incapable of withstand ing the pressure of the air and the wings therefore collapsed" The investigators visited the scene of the accident and minutely examined the wreckage, taking a number ot photographs Three eye witnesses Corporals Adams and Ostrander, and Private McCloud of the aviation squad were examined.
 A pail hung over the reservation at College Park today and the flag on the White House as well as those on private grounds in the vicinity were at half mast. AWithin an hour after the officers had finished their examination every particle of the machine was re- moved.
 Colonel Scriyen issued orders that no more flying would take place on the reservation during this week. He also caused a message of sympathy to be sent to MT and Mrs. Hazlehurst at Evansville, Ind, parents of the dead officer.
 Lieutenant Hazlehurst's parents will arrive here tomorrow afternoon and the interment of the young officer will take place at Arlington National Gene tery Friday morning. with the military | honors due his rank. The honorary pail bearers will be his associates at the aviation station and the body bear CTS will be the enlisted men from l there.
 Orville Wright has informed the sig
 nal corps that he will arrive here to- | morrow
 To overcome any feeling of partial 1 itv because of the fact that the board of inquiry was composed of men at the | .viation station, Major General Leon.
 ard Wood has appointed Major General Walter H. Gordon of the l inspector
 generals department, to make an in
 dependent investigation of the acci
 dent
 l In belief that either the government | or the families of the deceased might
 desire to memorialize in some way the accident the enlisted men drove
 stakes into the ground where they
 were found They bore the penciled i inscriptions "Hazlehurst found here
 and Welsh found here"
 It developed here that none of the
 officers or men at the station actually
 saw the machine when it began its downward plunge
 Officers at College Park recalled a statement of Lieutenant Hazlehurst just before he stepped into the
 machine that he did not want to gC up with Welsh because he did not like
 those dips" that Welsh was in tho
 habit of making.
 The machine struck the ground, it is
 stated, at an angle of about 90 degree. drove the nose of the skidders deer
 in the earth and then turned complete ly over, throwing the aviators about
 20 feet with part of the machine or
 them.