AIR DISASTER
PASSENGER AX!) ARMY PLANES COLLIDE.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
XKW YORK, April 22. At Santiago. California, six persons were killed in an aerial collision.
A passenger-carrying aeroplane was struck in mid-air by an army plane. The tragedy occurred on Sunday.
HO AY TT HAPPENED
NEW YORK. April 22
At San Diega, California, six persons were killed on Sunday wlnm Lieutenant Howard Keefer, in a single-seater army pursuit plane dropped suddenly near a large passenger aeroplane, in which there were two pilots, one other man. and two girls.
Lieut. Keefer’s plane sliced a portion of one pif the wings from tinlarge passenger plane, and hath planes then crashed.
Lieut. Keefer attempted to jump, but his parachute caught in the wing of his plane.
The passenger plane’s pilot worked bis own plane down safely, only for it to overturn on landing.
The witnesses gave varied reports of the cause, hut it is believed that it is not probable that Lieut. Keefer was stunting. It is thought that both of the planes dropped simultaneously, this being due to the atmospheric conditions, and that the army ship fell the more quickly, thus striking the other plane before the pilots could regain control in the blank space in the nir.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1929, Page 5
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