SIX KILLED IN CRASH
TRAGIC COLLISION IN MID-AIR TWO GIRLS AMONG DEAD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Sunday. A collision occurred in mid-air today at San Diego, California, between a large passenger airplane and an army machine. Six persons were killed. Lieutenant Howard Keefer was flying in a single-seater army pursuit airplane when it dropped suddenly on to the other machine, in which there were two pilots, a third man and two girls. The army airplane sliced off a portion of one wing from the larger machine and both of them crashed. Lieutenant Keefer attempted to jump out, but his parachute caught in one wing of his machine and he was killed. The pilot in charge of the passenger airplane at the time worked it safely downward, but it capsized in landing and the five occupants lost their lives. Eye-witnesses of the accident gave varied reports of its cause. They said they believed it improbable that Lieutenant Keefer was doing “stunts.” They thought both airplanes dropped simultaneously owing to the atmospheric conditions and that the army machine fell more quickly and struck the other before its pilots could regain control in a “blank space” in the air.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 645, 23 April 1929, Page 9
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