Image:2414999831 cfe293724d o.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eddie August Schneider in the New York Times

[edit] Caption

2 Die As Planes Crash At Field. Eddie Schneider, Who Flew At 15, Is Killed When His Craft And Navy Trainer Collide. Passenger Also Victim. U.S. Ship Is Landed Safely At Floyd Bennett Airport Despite Damaged Wing. Eddie Schneider, who started flying when he was 15 years old and set a junior transcontinental record in 1930 at the age of 18, was killed with a student passenger yesterday when their light training plane was in collision with a Naval Reserve plane, also on a training flight, just west of Floyd Bennett Field. The Naval Reserve plane landed safely at the field but Schneider's plane went into a spin, tore off a wing, and crashed into Deep Creek, a few hundred feet across Flatbush Avenue from the city airport in Brooklyn. ...

[edit] Source

New York Times, December 24, 1940

[edit] Rationale

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  • It is not replaceable with a not copyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
  • It is a historically significant news article of a famous individual.
  • The article is only being used for informational purposes.
  • Its inclusion in the Wikipedia article adds significantly to the article because the news article and its historical significance are the object of discussion in the article.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeDimensionsUserComment
current00:10, 16 April 2008901×1,600 (489 KB)Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (Talk | contribs) (Eddie August Schneider in the New York Times ==Caption== 2 Die As Planes Crash At Field. Eddie Schneider, Who Flew At 15, Is Killed When His Craft And Navy Trainer Collide. Passenger Also Victim. U.S. Ship Is Landed Safely At Floyd Bennett Airpor)

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):