International Flying Contest - From Paris to Madrid 1911

The start of the great international flying contest from Paris to Madrid was marked by a fatal accident. At about six o'clock Louis Emile Train who was carrying a passenager on his monoplane, rose from the ground did a circuit of the field. Returning towards his shed, he drove to one of the sides to avoid a company of Cuirassiers, then for some reason unknown, the machine fell, striking a group of officials. M. Berteaux, the French Minister of War, who was struck by the propeller was injured and died

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