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Title: Pan-American Airlines plane nose dives at Clover Field, Santa Monica, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 13, 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A similar photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the headline, “Gigantic Plane Noses Over—Former Kaiser Quits Exile for Brief Visit,” Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug 1935: 16.
A crowd gathers around a crashed plane as men inspect the cockpit at Clover Field (Santa Monica Municipal Airport). Another man on the left takes a photograph.
A Pan-American flight nose-dived into Clover Field. The two people on board, William Winston, the pilot, and William Lynch, an engineer, were uninjured.
Text from negative sleeve: 1627—Pan American Airline Ford Plane wrecked at Clover Field 8/13/35 [stamped:] AUG 22
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9969
ark:/21198/zz002dj4mg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Aircraft accidents--California--Santa Monica
Airplanes--American--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica Municipal Airport
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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