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NEW YO

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BEACHEY KILLED IN A TAUBE DROP

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Air Pressure Crumples Monoplane's Wings as Airman Tries to Resume Glide.

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CROWD OF 50,000 HORRIFIED

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Machine and Aeroplanist Fall Into San Francisco Bay-Recovered by Navy Diver.

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BROTHER SAW HIS PLUNGE

me, and I am through"

Four months later Beachey appeared

[[underlined]]Lincoln Beachey, 1911-1915[[/underlined]]
Statement on [[underlined]]May 12, 1913[[/underlined]]:
"I am through with flying... I am worried that the only thing that draws crowds to see me is the morbid desire to see something happen. They call me the Master Birdman, but they pay to see me die....
Moreover, I am affected by the deaths of so many boys who were friends or pupils of mine. Gene Ely was killed in October 1911... Horace Kearny... drowned while flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco... Charlie Walsh last October in Trenton, N.J., tried a spiral when a wire snapped, and 50.000 people saw him killed.... Those boys were like brothers to me, and I am through."
Four months later Beachey joined the Curtiss staff of aviators.,..
and on March 15, 1915 he was killed.