Aviation aux Etats-Unis : accidents d'avion, 1931. - 21 photos - Photo n° 229124
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WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE: PHOTO FROM WIDE WORLD PHOTOS: 740245 PLANE CRASH IN AIR KILLS FOUR ARMY MEN. SAN ANTONIO, TEX.-Three Brooks Field officers and one flying cadet were killed yesterday when two planes in which they were riding crashed at an altitude of about 400 feet four miles south of the airdrome. The dead are Major Chas. V. Hart, flight surgeon of the field and pilot of one of the planes; Captain C. J. Chamberlin, student at the school of aviation medicine at Brooks Field; Lieut. K. Austin Rogers, flying instructor at the filed and Cadet Endicott Longacre, student in the basic stage at the field. Lieut. Rogers and Cadet Longacre were returning to the field to land while the other plane had taken off only a few minutes before the crash. According to witnesses who saw the collision from the field, the planes locked wings, the terrific impact whirling them almost completely around and down to the ground. All the men were killed instantly. 7/17/31. Photo shows the wreckage of the plane piloted by Lieut. K. Austin Rogers after the terrible catastrophe. 7/17/31. [Wide World Photos] [Actualit]