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1929 Newark Metropolitan Airport disaster...
1929 Newark Metropolitan Airport disaster...
Item # 690859
March 18, 1929
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, March 18, 1929
* Newark Metropolitan Airport disaster
* Ford Ti-Motor airplane crash - New Jeresy
* Deadliest aviation accident at the time
The front page has a nice banner headline: "CRASH KILLS 13 AIR TOURISTS" with subheads. (see) Nice for display. Lengthy first report coverage continues on page 2. Three related photos and banner heading on the back page.
Complete with 48 pages, rag edition in great condition.
wikipedia notes: The Colonial Western Airways Ford 4-AT-B Trimotor NC7683 suffers a double engine failure during its initial climb after takeoff from Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey. It fails to gain height and crashes into a railroad freight car loaded with sand, killing 14 of the 15 people on board the aircraft. At the time, this is the deadliest airplane accident in American history.
Category: The 20th Century