AEROPLANES CRASH
BUILDINGS STRUCK AND SET ON FIRE NUMBER OF DEATHS NOT DETERMINED
(United Press Association.--B.v Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. November 28, 8.10 p.m.) New York, November 27. An undetermined number of persons were killed in two houses which were destroyed by tire when two aeroplanes from the Roosevelt Field fell in the vicinity of Westbury, Long Island. A four-motored Fokker monoplane, one of the largest aeroplanes in the United States, was being tested by the Department of Commerce when it fell and struck a house, which set fire to a second house. Both houses were destroyed. The police are unable to determine how many people were involved in the fire. Later a student, alone in a small aeroplane, fell into a real estate oilice in the heart of the town and was fatally injured.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 11
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