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On 25 May 1916 Fonck's observer was killed by an anti-aircraft shell burst, a fate that almost befell Fonck a few weeks later. Fonck claimed his first enemy aircraft in July 1916, but his victory was unconfirmed.
FONCK NAVY OFFICER SAFE IN m CRASH Explosion Drops Craft As Transatlantic Flight Starts. ROOSEVELT FIELD, WESTBURY, N. Y., Sept. 21.—Rene Fonck’s long heralded attempt to fly with threo companions from New York to Parle started today amid the acclaim of a thousand persons, and three minutes later it ended, the plane in flames and two of the ...
Mar 29, 2018 · “His plane immediately nose-dived to a crash at the corner of a wooded area,” Fonck wrote. His victim, Warrant Officer Anton Dierle of Jagdstaffel (fighter squadron, or Jasta ) 24, was killed. French soldiers examine the recovered remains of a Rumpler C.IV brought down by Sub-Lieutenant Fonck in the spring of 1918.
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The pilot René Fonck with his copilot Lt Lawrence W. Curtin of the United States Navy were joined by a radio operator and a Sikorsky mechanic for the flight.
The big Sikorski failed to get airborne and over-running the end of the field plummeted down a slope, crashing and catching fire. The pilot, the illustrious WW1 French ace Captain Rene Fonck and the co-pilot Lt Laurence Curtin USN managed to escape the flames, but the radio operator Charles Clavier and the flight mechanic Jacob Islamoff both died.
The Sikorsky S-35 was an American triple-engined sesquiplane transport later modified to use three-engines. It was designed and built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company for an attempt by René Fonck on a non-stop Atlantic crossing for the Orteig Prize. It was destroyed in the attempt.
Fonck survived the war as France's leading air ace. Staying in aviation, Fonck twice failed to make the first west-to-east transalantic crossing in 1926 and 1927, narrowly avoiding his own premature end in the crash of his big Sikorsky S-35 on 20 Septenber 1926.
