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USA: collision between two vintage aircraft

Los Angeles, USA - In front of the Californian coasts

Two vintage biplanes, a 1942 Boeing Stearman and a 1940 Army-green Waco UPF-7, collided about a mile off the Palos Verdes Peninsula Saturday afternoon. Both took off from Torrance Municipal Airport. Airport officials reported that the propeller of the Stearman apparently clipped the back side of the Waco not long after it and a third vintage plane left the airport. Nobody was seriously injured,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 73620
Rome, Italy, 02/06/2007 13:36
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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