Pocatello, ID Airplane Crash, Sept 1928
Probe Air Crash Fatal to Seven
Pocatello, Ida., Sept. 5. – Officials of the National Park Airways, today were investigating the crash of their tri-motored passenger plane which resulted in the death of seven persons here yesterday.
The dead:
PAUL WHEATLY, pilot; W. A. McLEAN, representative of Liberty Magazine; JAMES F. RICHARDS, secretary of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce:
M. A. TIMMERMAN, Ogden, Utah, newspaperman;
MRS. MONA SCHAPER, Salt Lake, and her two children, PAUL, age six and RAMONA, (illegible) months.
The plane fell about 150 feet after it had apparently banked too sharply.
The Charleroi Mail, Charleroi, PA 5 Sept 1928
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Transcribed by Jenni Lanham. Thank you, Jenni!
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