Accidents

At the dedication of the Tempelhofer Field--once the parade ground of the ex-Kaiser's famous guard regiments --as Berlin's airport, members of the municipal government went up in eleven airplanes. The eleventh machine crashed on landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing a man ill in bed as well as the occupants of the airplane, and setting the house on fire.