AIR DISASTERS
•’ASSENGER ’PLANE CRASHES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED. I United Press Association—By CableCopyright.J lAus'raiiau and R.Z. Press Association.] New York, September 4. News from Gallup, New Mexico, states that the great trans-continen-tal Air Transport Company's piano City of San Francisco, which has been missing since early yesterday, was struck by lightning south of that place and crashed on the desert when trying to cross the mountains. The 'plane contained five passengers, most of whom were prominent in various cirdhs, and three of a crew. The report indicates that all were killed. A terrific storm occurred in that vicinity yesterday. EXPLOSION IN THE AIR. Major John P. Wood, a famed air mail pilot and air transport executive, who was attempting to lower the record between Los Angeles and Cleveland, was killed when bis monoplane exploded in the air. His mechanic jumped in a parachute and es caped with injuries, but Wood’s mangled body was found in tangled wreckage on the desert to-day. The mechaninc stated that he believed lightning struck the ’plane in an exceptionally severe storm.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 222, 6 September 1929, Page 8
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