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Title: Crash at San Fernando Airport
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Musgrove, Dean
Date Created and/or Issued: 1979
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Two men were en route to Santa Paula Airport when their plane lost power, after it reached 150 feet, and crashed nose down in a field, about 250 yards north of the San Fernando Airport runway. It was believed that strong winds may have played a role in the crash.
Photograph caption dated December 23, 1979 reads, "The single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon which crashed on take-off at San Fernando Airport."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 30 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094006
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b001_f4_i15
CARL0005028366
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29303
Subject: San Fernando Airport (San Fernando, Calif.)
Aircraft accidents--California--San Fernando
Bellanca airplanes
Airplanes--California--San Fernando
Debris--California--San Fernando
Fire fighters--California--San Fernando
Airports--California--San Fernando
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
San Fernando (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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