MID-AIR COLLISION
DISASTER IN CALIFORNIA ' TEN PEOPLE KILLED Vr«M Anoci&iion—By Televnt’/h -Co ,»y right NEW YORK, January 2. - ,JL message from Santa Monica (California) states that.ten persons, occupants of motion picture camera aeroplanes, were killed • when the planes collided at an altitude of 3,000 ft and fell into the sea. ! . FLYING FOR PICTURES. NEW YORK, January 2. A later message from Santa Monica states that two commercial cabin aoro- • planes were believed to be carrying five persons each when they collided three miles off the shore and plunged into the sea'. "It is considered probable that all were'killed. The planes were,flying in a stunt performance for the Fox Films Corporation. One of the passengers was Kenneth Hawks, husband of the cinema actress Mary Aster, and brother-in-law of Hesse Lore- 1 The pilot. of a third plane, from which an ■ aviator was about to lea]? in a stunt parachute jump, said: *‘l saw the planes meet head on, hurst into flames,, and drop, into the sea, after which fishing boats rushed to the scene.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 20374, 4 January 1930, Page 11
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173MID-AIR COLLISION Evening Star, Issue 20374, 4 January 1930, Page 11
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