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Title: Air California jet crashes at John Wayne Airport
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981
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.
This crash occurred at John Wayne Airport after an air traffic controller incorrectly cleared the plane, flying from San Jose, for landing. The captain delayed the go-around and the plane stalled. It then banked left and the wingtip touched the runway, causing the nose to go down and for the plane to skid down the runway. A fire then broke out, but only four of the 96 passengers and crew sustained minor injuries.
Photograph caption dated February 18, 1981 reads, "Air California 737 jet, broken in half, rests on foam-covered runway. Passengers escaped down chutes leading from the airplane's doors."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093519
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b001_f6_i4
CARL0005027856
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29261
Subject: Air California
John Wayne Airport (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Aircraft accidents--California--Santa Ana
Airplanes--California--Santa Ana
Aircraft survival equipment
Runways (Aeronautics)--California--Santa Ana
Fires--California--Santa Ana
Boeing 737 (Jet transport)
Foam
Airports--California--Santa Ana
Santa Ana (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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