BIG PLANE FALLS
SETS HOUSES ABLAZE
(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.),
NEW YORK, November 27
A number of persons—how many has not yet been determined —were killed in two houses which were destroyed by lire when two aeroplanes from Roosevelt Field fell in the vicinity of Westbury, on Long Island.
A four-motored Fokker monoplane, one off the largest aeroplanes in the United States, was being tested by the Department of Commerce, when it fell and struck one of the houses, which set fire to the second house. Both houses were destroyed.
The police are unable to determine how many people were involved in the tragedy. Later, a student, who was alone in a small plane, fell into a real estate office in the heart ol the town of Westbury, and was fatally injured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1929, Page 6
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