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Title: Plane crashes near John Wayne Airport
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ruebsamen, James
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.
The wreckage of a private plane, believed to be a Beechcraft Bonanza, that crashed into the parking lot at 2082 Business Circle Drive in Irvine. According to investigators, the plane, which was approaching the airport against the flow of traffic, bounced once, crashed, then caught fire, burning the pilot beyond recognition. Photograph dated February 26,1986.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094904
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b004_f1_i31
CARL0005043208
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32618
Subject: Aircraft accidents--California--Irvine
Aircraft accident victims--California--Irvine
Airplanes--California--Irvine
Fire fighters--California--Irvine
Debris--California--Irvine
Parking lots--California--Irvine
Beechcraft (Airplanes)
Irvine (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs
Time Period: 1981-1990

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