{"id":1037,"date":"1941-03-10T20:12:58","date_gmt":"1941-03-10T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2016-11-09T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T20:19:51","slug":"these-crack-ups-spoiled-the-airlines-perfect-17-month-safety-record-life-magazine-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/these-crack-ups-spoiled-the-airlines-perfect-17-month-safety-record-life-magazine-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"These Crack-Ups Spoiled the Airlines&#8217; Perfect 17-Month Safety Record &#8211; LIFE Magazine (1941)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LIFE Magazine, March 10, 1941, page 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[On August 31, 1940] Into a cornfield [near Lovettsville, VA] crashed a Pennsylvania-Central Airlines plane killing all 25 people aboard, including U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen. \u00a0The CAA gave this as the probably cause: \u00a0As the plane few into a very heavy local thunderstorm, \u00a0a bolt of lightning burst in its path. \u00a0The pressure and sound waves resulting from the terrific discharge stunned both pilots, gave them a concussion. \u00a0With no hands on its controls, the plane dived to the earth, hit at 300 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1941-03-10-LIFE-Magazine-page-27.jpg\" alt=\"1941-03-10-life-magazine-page-27\" width=\"1478\" height=\"1916\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1941-03-10-LIFE-Magazine-page-27.jpg 1478w, http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1941-03-10-LIFE-Magazine-page-27-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1941-03-10-LIFE-Magazine-page-27-768x996.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1941-03-10-LIFE-Magazine-page-27-790x1024.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1478px) 100vw, 1478px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE Magazine, March 10, 1941, page 27 [On August 31, 1940] Into a cornfield [near Lovettsville, VA] crashed a Pennsylvania-Central Airlines plane killing all 25 people aboard, including U.S. Senator&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}