CAUSE OF CRASH
AMERICAN AIRLINER
RADIO MICROPHONE
(Received March 8, noon.)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6,
• United Airlines have announced that a radio microphone lodged between a control column and a seat rail caused the crash in San Francisco Bay last month. The pilot, Tommy' Thompson, was helpless to prevent the crash.
A cable received on February. 11 stated that a transport aeroplane, with 11 people aboard, plunged into San Francisco Bay when en route from Los Angeles to the San Francisco airport. There wers no survivors.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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86CAUSE OF CRASH Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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