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| Date: | Wednesday 11 July 1928 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Travel Air |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | NC… |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Charles Gilbert farm, Snyders outside Pottsville, PA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Curtiss Field, NY |
| Curtiss Field, NY | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Ground witness reports aircraft struck by lightning or encountered weather related difficulty resulting in stall and struggled to recover on training flight conducted by Morris Titterington (aviation inventor) and his student, actress Bernice Gamble Andrews. Crashed in area of Pottsville, PA.
Sources:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19280712&id=z_E0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=umcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1138,757536&hl=en
Lewiston Evening Journal - Jul 12, 1928 n
http://www.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/19065/snyders-pa-july-11-1928-inventor-woman-passenger-die-in-plane-crash
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Jan-2015 07:29 | jmgil | Added |
| 06-Jan-2015 07:32 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 28-Nov-2021 11:13 | Cobar | Updated [Date, Registration, Location, Source, ] |
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