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Title: Wreckage of Standard Airlines C-46 crash sits on hillside, 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 Santa Susana Mountains near Simi Valley and Chatsworth.
Image that accompanies caption in print is b70_58744j-2, which is a manipulated version of the present negative.
SCENE OF TRAGEDY – Broken like indicates course of transport as it struck ground at the extreme right, whirled across slope in the Santa Susana Mountains, smashed into huge boulders and then burst into flame.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: b70_58744j-1
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airplanes--United States--1940-1950
Hills--California--Los Angeles County
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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