[meteorite-list] NPA 09-27-1934 Meteor Bursts Near Airplane On Coast Trip

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Reno Evening Gazette
City: Reno, Nevada
Date: Thursday, September 27, 1934
Page: 12

Meteor Bursts Near Airplane On Coast Trip

     Several Nevada passengers, riding a United Airlines plane received one 
of those "once in a life time thrills" early this morning when a blazing 
meteor burst seemingly within a few hundred yards of the airliner, Co-Pilot 
Archie Anderson of the early morning transcontinental plane reported on his 
arrival in Oakland.
     Anderson said he was at the controls in the sky over Fairfield, Solano 
county, when he saw the meteor. Instinctively, he swerved the plane, then he 
realized he couldn't expect to dodge anything coming so fast. At that moment 
the meteor exploded.
     "I looked around suddenly when Anderson swerved the ship," said Pilot 
Jack O'Brien, "just in time to see the final flash of the meteor, Boy, it 
was close. That fireball seemed right in front of the propellers."
     Passengers cried out, and LaVon Mase, a truck driver who saw the meteor 
and heard the roar of the plane's motors, telephoned Oakland police an 
airplane had fallen in flames.
     Aboard the ship were William Scott of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. A. Biehl of 
Chicago; John P. Hunter of Chicago; Dorothy Taylor of Elko, Nev.; J. 
McManana of Elko; W.P. Dressler of Reno, and W.F. Drisch of Reno, 
passengers; the two pilots, and Miss Lucille Gillett, stewardess.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
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