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Title
Pilot removed from crashed plane
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Mendoza, Javier
Date Created and/or Issued
1986
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated February 13,1986 reads, "Ontario firefighters carefully remove pilot Dean Plath from dangling Cessna." Plath, a resident of Tustin, and his passenger, Clarence Washburn, were trapped for four hours in the Cessna 172 that got tangled in power lines 90 feet above ground near the Ontario International Airport. Both Plath and Washburn were unharmed.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094905
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b004_f1_i32
CARL0005043777
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32619
Subject
Aircraft accidents--California--Ontario
Air pilots--California--Ontario
Airplanes--California--Ontario
Fire fighters--California--Ontario
Cessna aircraft
Electric lines--California--Ontario
Cranes, derricks, etc.--California--Ontario
Ontario (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs
Time Period
1981-1990

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