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Title: Passenger cabin of crashed Standard Airlines C-46, 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.
CLOSE-UP – Wreckage of Standard Airlines C-46 lies on side of steep canyon in Santa Susana Mountains, surrounded by dead and injured, as rescue work begins. Picture shows how whole section of passenger cabin was sheared away, hurling burned and mangled bodies among boulders 30 yards away. Another plane reported tragedy.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b70_58744d
ark:/21198/zz00152qsq
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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