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Title: Helicopter wreckage in San Pedro
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Jarzomb, Leo
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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 December 1,1985 reads, "County divers near upside-down copter search crash site under the Vincent Thomas Bridge." Shown is the wreckage of one of the two helicopters that collided in mid-air during a landing maneuver at the Catalina Air and Sea Terminal in San Pedro. One passenger, Hossein Habibi of Glendale, was forced out of one of the copters and killed by a still-spinning rotor blade; 11 others were injured.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094901
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b004_f1_i28
CARL0005043205
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32616
Subject: Helicopters--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Helicopters--California--Los Angeles
Scuba divers--California--Los Angeles County
Debris--California--Los Angeles
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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