STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
; PLANE SMASHED’IN AIR. United Press Association.—By Electric ; ’ Telegraph.—Copyright;) (Received this dav at 10.30. a.m.) VANCOUVER., August 5. Lightning struck a plane when at a height (of four thousand feet over M.ojaven Desert and fragments liter- , ally rainhd from the clouds. Virgil Cline was piloting,, when the flash struck the gas tank. The flier’s broken mangled body was quickly found. Fragments of the wings continued to descend for ..half ..an. hour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1929, Page 6
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