[Leendert]

Thanks to a kind gentleman in Chile, I received the following (slightly edited):

Curtiss Falcon (FACh number 6) took off from Los Condores air base (Iquique city), in a demonstration flight with the FACh’s Curtiss Falcon number 10.

Both planes (from the Grupo de Aviación N° 1, Iquique) made evolved maneuvers over the bay. The N° 6 ended the exercise, flew back to the airfield, took a a dive from 500 meters high and lost the lower left wing.

Chilean officer and pilot Eduardo Arndt Brieva parachutes and survives, but the Englishman (= Petty Officer Johnson) was trapped in the machine.

Regards,

Leendert