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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 "What used to be peaceful campus. Horrified crowd looks over what used to be quiet and peaceful Pacoima school grounds. Wrecked courts, torn fences, smashed debris litter campus after DC-7 transport plane came to stop in its fatelul course here, as children were playing, studying or participating in graduation ceremonies." See images 00147086 through 00147092 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier
00147090
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d056_f34_i25; H-21406.4 4x5
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127077
Subject
Douglas Aircraft Company
Pacoima Middle School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Middle schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Pacoima (Los Angeles)
Playgrounds--California--Los Angeles
School buildings--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--California--Los Angeles
Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1951-1960

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