Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-07
Machines Used In Express
And Passenger Service Be
tween Pari. And London
Ram Each Other In Fog
Near French Town; Three
Passengers Are Among
Dead; One OF Planes Ii
Operation Only Three
Days.

Faris. April s.-(By the AsSo-
ciated Press 1.-THE Paris and
London acriai expresses collided
in mid air this afternoon over the
village Of ThieuiIoy, 20 miles
north Of Paris. The pilots Of
both airplancs. three passengers
and one mechanic were killed In
wrcckaec that fell flaming to the
ground. s..,z,rs,,,.,ssa..
The French airpIanc. pjinec sSss
Ivy Aviator Miro. aided by ,al ii,s3s
chanfc. was carrying three - s2
tho cnvirOns of Paris, at noona 469 u
London IA
The British airplanc. wliic:i
Lett Croydon. in tho London AREA
In the morning, carried mail ~ sa, ssss
one pilot. sss 81 81 II
The passengers in the Paris 81
plane were NJ. Bouricz, N.
Mime. Julien Brusi. Il
Used Only Three Days.
The British machine, pilored
Aviator Duke, had only BEEN inH
three days on the express rcutSs3
belonged to a new company opsfAEfxs
a Paris-London service.
The accident occurred duringsAfn6
the pilots seeing each other StnD3
to avoid a collision. NsaSs GU
Five persons from the nlAchihes
were dead when inhabita nts EpnnNaess
village of 'Thieulloy arrived on III esS
scene shortly after the crash, ana slss
sixth victim was dying. xsE sss
Regarded As Safe Systeh sSsSs
The aerial express service@ y
London and Paris was starte0Jid rE
spring of 1919 and has come s'
garded as one Of the n
means OF TRANSPORTATION bet ias IN
two capitals. AT first only pA3 Ia
by travellers of an adXenturnuS ska
OF. m nd " tesf 81 hs~etA lS
of air travel 1t has deve1op1Ag kaei
tho last two years. with ele8 ~.
danger reduced to the minifk& H.
steady daily route. The Il
made in a little more than two
and at least hal fof the nAAoeHGMSM
have been women. ssss
Used By High Officials
Prominent officials have freanenfly
awaited themselves of the airsrout ep
attend hastily called conferencas I'm
peace conference Bonar Law of the
British delegates made hurried trips
back to London to attend routine
official business. often returning the
same day. King Albert and Queen
Elizabeth of Belgium have also been
passengers.
These luxurious air Pullmans carry
ten or twelve persons in large COM
Portable chairs. Each seat has a sep
ara,e hole through which the pas
senger can view the landscape.
Carry Express.
The fare has steadily decreased
since large number of passengers
have taken to this form of travel and
round trip tickets cost about $50.
Another and incidental development
Of the air service has been the amount
of merchandise carried. Each plane
goods and Paris dressmakers fire.
qucntly deliver gowns in London in
this way Recently a load of prize
pigs was brought from London to
Paris by air express and many dogs
have also. made the trip.
Collisions between the airplanes
were not unusual during the war when
the f1ocks of machines were moving
swiftly in, comparatively circum-
air Of the two aerial expresses. how
ever almost inconceivably traversins
ii he very same air channel out Of the
virtually innumerablc ones available
constitutes one Of the most remark
able happenings in the history OF
aviation. -.
Only once before today's collision
has. there been a fatal accident in
this service. This occurred in De
cember. 1920. moro than a year after
the service was inaugurated, where a
big air liner, just as it was leaving
Cricklewood. near London. fouled a
tree and crashed to the ground in
flames. killing the pilot. his mechan-
| ician and two passengers.