PLANES COLLIDE
SIX PEOPLE KILLED
ARMY AND PASSENGER MACHINES
PECULIAR ACCIDENT (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 9.45 p.m.) New York, April 22. At San Diego (California) six persons were killed on Sunday when Lieutenant Howard Keefer, in a single-seater army pursuit plane, dropped suddenly near a large passenger airplane in which there were two pilots, a man and two girls. Keefer’s plane sliced a portion of the wing from the larger plane and both crashed. Keefer attempted to jump, but his parachute caught in the whig of his plane. The passenger pilot worked his own plane down safely only to overturn on landing. Eye-witnesses gave varied reports of the cause, but it is believed that it is improbable that Keefer was stunting. It is thought that both planes dropped simultaneously due to atmospheric conditions and the army ship fell more quickly, striking the other before the pilots could regain control in a “blank space” in the air.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20666, 23 April 1929, Page 7
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159PLANES COLLIDE Southland Times, Issue 20666, 23 April 1929, Page 7
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