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Title: Tail section of C-46 rises above wreckage of Standard Airlines 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: The plane crashed in the Santa Susana Mountains near Chatsworth and Simi Valley.
DEATH SCENE – Contents of ill-fated transport are flung in wild disarray. Tail section rises bleakly above scene.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b70_58744c
ark:/21198/zz00152qr6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Disaster
Airplanes--United States--1940-1950
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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