17 KILLED AT AIR SHOW
STUNT PLANE CRASHES IN CROWD
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. At least 17 persons were killed, nine of them children, when a stunt plane plunged into a crowd of onlookers at an air show at Flagler, Colorado, today. The total of injured is estimated to be at least 35.
A reporter who saw the accident said a single-engined plane swooped in over the field at a low altitude and did a wing-over just above the crowd. Upside down, the plane fell to earth from an altitude of less than 100 feet and plunged among spectators and motor-cars.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26528, 17 September 1951, Page 7
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