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English: Partially burned "crash cover" carried on the regular evening Southbound Air Mail flight of USPOD CAM #24 which departed Maywood Field, Chicago, IL, on schedule at 9:00PM, November 2, 1929, for Cincinnati, OH, via Indianapolis, IN. Pilot Charles Vermilyea miscalculated his altitude while landing at Mars Hill Airport in Indianapolis at 10:45PM and crashed resulting in a fire with loss of both pilot and airplane. About 85% of the mail (much of which was damaged) was salvaged and forwarded to its addressees with a notice applied to each cover reading "DAMAGED IN PLANE CRASH INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Nov. 2, 1929 ROBT. H. BRYSON, P.M."
Date 5 January 2009 (original upload date)
Source The Cooper Collection of Aerial Postal History. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Michael Romanov using CommonsHelper.
Author The original uploader was Centpacrr at English Wikipedia.

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  • 2009-01-05 05:13 Centpacrr 1000×440× (174110 bytes) Crash Cover carried on Southbound flight of CAM #24 departing Chicago, IL, at 9:00OM, November 2, 1929, for Cincinnati, OH, via Indianapolis, IN. Pilot Charles Vermilyea miscalculated his altitude while landing at Mars Hill Airport in Indianapolis at 10:4

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