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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 March 20, 1957 reads "This is homeroom 12 at Pacoima Junior High School where three youths hurt in plane crash are still missing from their desks. Coincidentally, they sat in following alphabetical order: Albert Ballou, 12, Jack Bengston, 12, and Richard Berger, 12. Ballou is at Sun Valley Hospital, Bengston at home and Berger at Valley Hospital. B-7 teacher Ralph C. Tayloe instructs other members of his class."
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