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Title: Wreckage of Standard Airlines C-46 crash, 1949
Date Created and/or Issued: July 13, 1949
1949-07-13
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Plane crashed in the Santa Susana Mountains near Simi Valley and Chatsworth.
MANGLED – Battered fuselage and wing section of the air liner. The plane was a C-46 Standard Airlines transport, a former twin-engine Commando. It was flying at about 1600 feet a mile and a half northeast of Chatsworth Reservoir when it crashed.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b70_58744b
ark:/21198/zz00152qqp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles County
Disaster
Airplanes--United States--1940-1950
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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