Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. A crowd gathers around a crashed plane as men inspect the cockpit at Clover Field (Santa Monica Municipal Airport). This photograph appears with the headline, “Gigantic Plane Noses Over—Former Kaiser Quits Exile for Brief Visit,” Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug 1935: 16. Text from negative sleeve: 1627—Pan American Airline Ford Plane wrecked at Clover Field 8/13/35 [stamped:] AUG 22 Text from newspaper caption: Flyers Escape When Plane Noses Over, Two flyers escaped uninjured when this Pan-American Airlines plane nosed over at Clover Field here yesterday at the conclusion of a flight from El Paso. The brakes locked when William Winston, pilot, glided onto the field and flipped the huge craft into a semi-ground-loop. The center motor buckled under the cock-pit, but both Winston and William Lynch, engineer, were unhurt. Times photo.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_9970 ark:/21198/zz002dj4n0
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No linguistic content
Subject
Airplanes--American--California--Santa Monica Aircraft accidents--California--Santa Monica Santa Monica Municipal Airport
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