TRAGEDY IN AMERICA
AIR LINER CRASHES EIGHT PEOPLE*KILLED \ CHICAGO, Dec. 4. (Received Dec, 5, at 8.25 p.m.)', - Eight people were killed and eight injured when a United.. air liner crashed aporoaching the municipal airport. It struck a two-storey house, ripping off »both. motors. The occuDants totalled 16.
As the plane approached the airport somethinsr went amiss, the plane struck a houie. snapped the power lines; darkened the - airport and surrounding area, and crashed in. flames. An hour afterwards five dead were removed and the injured were taken to, hospital. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24474, 6 December 1940, Page 7
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