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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1915 DIVERS HUNT IN VAIN FOR FLYERS BODY Cause of Taliaferro's Death Plunge Mystery to Airmen |
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Lieut. Walter R. Taliaferro, junior military aviator and holder of the American record for sustained flight for pilot alone, was killed at 11:15 o'clock yesterday morning when he fell from a height of 200 feet in military biplane No. 30. He fell into the bay in forty feet of water at a point about three-quarters of a mile due west of the municipal pier and only a few hundred feet from where Lieut. Henry Post was killed when he plunged from a height of 100 feet in his wrecked biplane February 9, 1914. Although the military tractor in which Lieutenant Taliaferro met his untimely death remained on the surface of the bay, a crumpled mass of wreckage, for fully three minutes after it struck, both pilot and machine found a resting place on the bay bottom several minutes before a rescue boat arrived on the spot and up to an early hour this morning, neither the dead army aviator nor the biplane had been brought to the surface. Fall at End of Loop The fatal aeroplane accident, the first that has occurred to United States army aviators stationed at |
Photographed At Wedding of Lieutenant Harold Geiger and Miss Frances Bridges.  |
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