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AERONAUTICS: Worst Crash

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TIME

As Colonel & Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh dined at San Diego last week with the J. L. Madduxes, their week-end hosts, a trimotored Ford of the T9. A. T.-Maddux Line (both men are company officials), which earlier in the evening they had heard flying North towards Los Angeles, crashed 35 miles away. Of “worst” crashes (TIME. July 1) this was worst—3 killed by explosion, 13 incinerated.

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