AIR DISASTERS
LIGHTNING DESTROYS BIG PLANES. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) INEW YORK, Sept 4. News from Gallup, in New Mexico, states that the. Great trans-Continental Air Transport Company’s plane “City of Son Francisco,” which had been missing since early yesterday, was struck by lightning, south of that place, and crashed on the desert when trying to . cross the mountains. The plane contained five passengers, most of whom were prominent in various circles, and three members of the crew.
The report"!ridicates that all were killed. Terrific storms occurred in that vicinity yesterday. Majc John P. Wood, the famed airmail pilot and air transport executive, who was attempting to lower the record between Los Angeles and Cleveland was killed when his monoplane exploded in the air. His mechanic jumped in the parachute, and he escaped with injuries, hut Major Wood’s mangled body-vivas found in a tangled wreckage on the desert to-dav. The mechanic stated he believed that
lightning struck the plane in the exceptionally severe storm'.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1929, Page 6
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