STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
PLANE RENT INTO FRAGMENTS
SHOWERED FROM CLOUDS
(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 11.40 a.m.) VANCOUVER, August 5. Lightning struck a plane when at the height of 4000 feet over the Mojave Desett. and fragments liteially rained fiofn the clouds. Virgil Clihe wad piloting when a flash Struck the gag tank. The flier’s bioken and rhangled body was quickly found. Fragments of the wings continued to descend for half an houf.
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Northern Advocate, 6 August 1929, Page 5
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74STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Northern Advocate, 6 August 1929, Page 5
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