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Title: Compton home damaged by plane crash
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.
Photograph caption dated February 11, 1979 reads, "County firemen inspect the frame of a small plane that crashed on take-off at Compton Airport. The plane was departing runway 25 right when it lost control and crashed into a nearby home. Nobody was injured inside the home, but two adult males were killed upon impact. The light is from a fireman's lantern."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 31 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094009
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b001_f4_i18
CARL0005028369
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29306
Subject: Los Angeles County (Calif.).--Fire Department
Aircraft accidents--California--Compton
Airplanes--California--Compton
Debris--California--Compton
Dwellings--California--Compton
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Compton (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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