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CABLE ADDRESS:
"INTERATORS"

CODES: "A.B.C., 5TH EDITION"
"LIEBER'S"
"WESTERN UNION"

ALFRED J. MOISANT
PRESIDENT

JAMES S. HERRMAN
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

WALTER KUTZLEB
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

WILLIAM J. TAYLOR
TREASURER

A.E. WUPPERMANN, SECRETARY

THE MOISANT INTERNATIONAL AVIATORS
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

U.S. RUBBER BUILDING
BROADWAY & 58TH ST.
NEW YORK, N.Y.

MAKERS OF MOISANT AEROPLANES OF ALL TYPES

THE MOISANT MONOPLANE SECURED MORE RECORDS IN 1911 THAN ANY OTHER AMERICAN MADE AEROPLANE

TELEPHONE {9141 9142} COLUMBUS

Report of William Picellar's fatal accident is witnessed by S.S. Jerwan on the Hempstead Plains Aviation Field, Garden City, L.I., and submitted to the Aero Club of America.

At about 7 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd day of October, 1914, I was watching Mr. Picellar descending after a flight he had made over Garden City, in a Wright biplane equipped with a 35 H.P. Wright engine.  And while at about fifty feet from the ground, I saw the end section of the right side of the plane flop upward, specifically the rear part of it.  At the moment I realized that something in the planes had broken, but I could not see what it was because within a small fraction of a second, the same side sank down causing the machine to drop diagonally, which upon touching the ground became a heap of wreckage with Mr. Picellar under it.  That was about two hundred feet from where I was standing with one of my pupils and Picellar's mechanic.  We ran to his assistance and found him lying flat on his face under the tangled wreckage and with the radiator on his both legs, over which part of the engine rested, thus crushing both legs.

It took us about five minutes to pull him out from under the wreck.  Of course he was unconscious, and after washing his face which was coverred with earth, we found two deep wounds on his forehead.  In the meantime, we called up for an ambulance which took him to Nassau Hospital where he died about two hours after the accident occurred.  According to doctors' reports, his death was due to internal injuries.

Upon examination of the wreck, it was discovered that the chain connecting the warping wires of the right side of the planes was broken.  To this, the cause of the acci-dent may be attributed, specially when we make a comparison with what I had seen in the air upon the occurance of the accident as I have already stated.

SS Jerwan