-Underwood and Underwood, photo.
The skeleton framework of what was the largest passenger plane ever constructed in the United States, and the ruins of one of the homes it fired as it crashed at Long Island, causing an estimated loss of £30,000. Mr Anthony H. G. Fokker, designer of the ship, thinks the crash was due to the ”pilots error." Both passengers in the plane escaped serious injury.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 41
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68-Underwood and Underwood, photo. The skeleton framework of what was the largest passenger plane ever constructed in the United States, and the ruins of one of the homes it fired as it crashed at Long Island, causing an estimated loss of £30,000. Mr Anthony H. G. Fokker, designer of the ship, thinks the crash was due to the ”pilots error." Both passengers in the plane escaped serious injury. Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 41
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