The Monroe News-Star - Aviator John Moisant Dies in Plane Crash
Submitted by: Lora Peppers  December 1999

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The Monroe News-Star
Saturday, December 31, 1910
Page 1, Column 1

JOHN MOISANT, DARING AVIATOR, DASHED TO DEATH THIS MORNING
HIS MACNINE (SIC) TURNED
AVIATOR WAS MAKING AN EFFORT TO WIN THE MICHELIN CUP.

New Orleans, Dec. 31. - John B. Moisant, the aviator, was killed this
morning while making a try for the Michelin Cup at Harahan, just above the
city.

While at an altitude of one hundred feet his machine suddenly turned
downward, the aviator being thrown in front of it, landing on his head.
Moisant was put aboard a special train and rushed to the city, but was dead
when the train arrived. The machine was completely wrecked.