FAMOUS PILOT CRASHES
’PLANK EXPLODES IN STORM NEW VORK, Sept. 4. Major John P. Wood, famed air-mail pilot and air-transport executive, who was attenitping to lower the record between Los Angelos and Cleveland, was killed when his monoplane exploded in the air. His mechanic in a parachute and escaped with injuiics, but Wood’s mangled body was found m the tangled wreckage on the desert today. The mechanic stated ho believed lightning struck the ’plane in an exceptionally severe storm.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 100, 6 September 1929, Page 5
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