Photograph caption dated July 8, 1981 reads, "This tangled mass of aircraft represents only two-thirds of the problem that resulted when a would-be thief, who apparently didn't know how to fly, climbed aboard a Piper Aztec at Santa Monica Airport today. According to Police Lt. Robert Thomas, the thief leaped out when it went out of control on the ground, crashing into two other planes. The wreckage at left and center is from the twin-engine Piper. On the right is a damaged single-engine Piper Cherokee."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Santa Monica Municipal Airport Aircraft accidents--California--Santa Monica Airplanes--California--Santa Monica Piper airplanes Airports--California--Santa Monica Debris--California--Santa Monica Santa Monica (Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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