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Title
Deaths in wake of planes' collision
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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.
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Description
On January 31, 1957, a Douglas DC-7B transport plane crashed into the school yard of Pacoima Junior High School, 9919 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, after colliding with a Northrop F-89J Scorpion jet trainer plane. Debris was also strewn across the grounds of Terra Bella Elementary School, adjacent to the junior high, and Pacoima Congregational Church, next door to the school. Three students and five airmen died and many more students were injured. The radarman aboard the jet was the only airman who survived. See images 00147086 through 00147092 for all photos in this series.
Photograph caption dated February 1, 1957 reads "Survived flaming death. St. Joseph Hospital attendants take care of injuries of Curtiss Albert Adams, 27, Northrop Aviation Corp. radar expert who parachuted to safety from F89 jet. Adams, a civilian employe [sic] for US Air Force, suffered burns about head and arms and body. He drifted down in the 800 block of Stanford street in Burbank." The hospital is in Burbank. See images 00147086 through 00147092 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier
00147092
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d056_f34_i27
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127079
Subject
Adams, Curtiss A., 1929-2002
Northrop Aircraft, Inc.--Employees
St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Aircraft accident victims--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Aircraft industry--California--Los Angeles--Employees
Nurses--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Bandages and bandaging
Hospitals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Time Period
1951-1960

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