AMERICAN PLANE CRASH
(Rec. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 31,
An American Airlines transport en route to Detroit from New York crashed and burned at St. Thomas, Ontario. Seventeen passengers and the crew of three were killed.
An eye-witness said the .plane was attempting an emergency landing with motors sputtering amid rain and fog when the right wing scraped the ground and the machine plunged its nose into the earth whereupon it exploded, hurling mail and wreckage a quarter of a mile.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 107, 1 November 1941, Page 10
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