Talk:Lovettsville Air Disaster

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[edit] Contemporaneous references

The Washington Post:

  • "Plane's Pilot Vainly Struggles To Save Craft", 1940-09-01, p. 1.
  • "Line Operated 13 Years With No Fatalities", 1940-09-01, p. 8.
  • "Ex-Head of D.C. Dental Society, 13 U.S. Employes Died in Crash", 1940-09-01, p. 1.
  • "Lovettsville Tragedy" (editorial), 1940-09-02, p. 6.
  • "Bodies Identified In Plane Crash", 1940-09-02, p. 4.
  • "Aerial Experts Wind Up Study Of Crash Scene", 1940-09-03, p. 1.
  • "Shock Knocked Out Pilots, It Is Believed", 1940-11-03, p. 15.

The New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=lovettsville+crash&srchst=p

Report of the Civil Aeronautics Board investigation of an accident involving aircraft of United States registry NC 21789 which occurred near Lovettsville, VA, August 15, 1940. 13 pp. (Available from Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. Ref. 31.202:Ac2.)

These are just a starting point for an interested editor to research. I added them to the Talk page instead of a subpage of my user page in case anyone is interested in the topic. --Oddharmonic 17:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)