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Milford, PA Airplane Crash, Aug 1928

Posted October 18th, 2007 by Linda Horton

Find Burnt Wreckage Of Lost Plane Which Carried Curtiss Head

Milford, Pa., Aug. 30.---The badly mangled body of M. M. Merrill and Edward Rowne, aviators who were killed when their plane was wrecked near here while enroute to New York, will be brought here this afternoon. The bodies will be sent to New York for burial after an inquest.

Milford, Pa., Aug. 30.---Word is awaited here today of the result of the search in the mountains in this vicinity in an effort to reach the spot where the burnt wreckage of the airplane which carried M. M. Merrill, manager of Curtiss Field, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., municipal airport was sighted.

The wreak age, definitely identified as that of the Falcon biplane built for Col. Charles A. Lindberg, was sighted yesterday by C. S. Jones and J. Nelson Kelly, aviators who were among the many who piloted planes in the search for the lost flyers.

The Charleroi Mail, Charleroi, PA 30 Aug 1928
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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