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Title
Sky crash probe
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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.
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Description
On January 31, 1957, a Douglas DC-7B transport plane crashed into the school yard of Pacoima Junior High School, 9919 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, after colliding with a Northrop F-89J Scorpion jet trainer plane. Debris was also strewn across the grounds of Terra Bella Elementary School, adjacent to the junior high, and Pacoima Congregational Church, next door to the school. Three students and five airmen died and many more students were injured. The radarman aboard the jet was the only airman who survived. See images 00147115 through 00147134 for all photos in this series.
Photograph article dated March 21, 1957 partially reads, "Curtiss Adams, 27, of Palmdale, the only man to escape when a Douglas transport plane collided with a jet fighter over the Valley last Jan. 31, was scheduled to testify today as the Civil Aeronautics Board continued its probe of the fatal crash... Earlier, the panel heard accounts of the tragedy from five eye witnesses - one of whom took a fix on the location of the collision with a transit. He was Ford Taplin, of 2502 Upper Terrace, La Crescenta, an instrument man for the City of Los Angeles. He told the hearing board he was working with a transit at Orcas street and Foothill boulevard." See images 00147115 through 00147121 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier
00147118
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d056_ f35_i20
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/126129
Subject
United States.--Civil Aeronautics Board
Northrop Aircraft, Inc
Douglas Aircraft Company
Governmental investigations--California--San Fernando Valley
Airplane crash survival--California--San Fernando Valley
Aircraft accidents--California--San Fernando Valley
Accident victims--California--San Fernando Valley
Men--California--San Fernando Valley
Scorpion (Jet fighter plane)
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period
1951-1960

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