{"id":816,"date":"1940-09-08T20:04:03","date_gmt":"1940-09-08T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=816"},"modified":"2016-11-06T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T20:07:28","slug":"tragedy-on-the-airways-the-washington-dc-sunday-star-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/tragedy-on-the-airways-the-washington-dc-sunday-star-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy On the Airways &#8211; The Washington DC Sunday Star (1940)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C, GRAVURE SECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER 8, 1940<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;TRAGEDY ON THE AIRWAYS&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jumbled wreckage of crashed airliner as night falls on gruesome scene where 25 persons\u00a0met death near Lovettsville, Virginia in the worst catastrophe in the history of American commercial aviation. \u00a0The ship&#8217;s smashed tail rises in the rear of this jumbled mass.<\/p>\n<p>Searchers find fragments of plane in a cornfield. They were strewn for several hundred yards by the terrific impact.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn of the morrow breaks over the scene of the crash as search is continued to clear the farm fields of remains of the 25 victims. \u00a0In this largest mass of wreckage one of the identifiable parts is a ending wheel, left.<\/p>\n<p>This crumpled, torn pilot&#8217;s cap, found at the crash, tells its own story of the force of the impact. \u00a0The pilot&#8217;s cant and much of his equipage, including goggles, are nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1940-09-08-Lovettsville-Air-Disaster-Sunday-Star-Gravure-Section-Washington-DC_FULL-PAGE-8x10-inch_275dpi-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1940-09-08-lovettsville-air-disaster-sunday-star-gravure-section-washington-dc_full-page-8x10-inch_275dpi\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1940-09-08-Lovettsville-Air-Disaster-Sunday-Star-Gravure-Section-Washington-DC_FULL-PAGE-8x10-inch_275dpi-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1940-09-08-Lovettsville-Air-Disaster-Sunday-Star-Gravure-Section-Washington-DC_FULL-PAGE-8x10-inch_275dpi-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1940-09-08-Lovettsville-Air-Disaster-Sunday-Star-Gravure-Section-Washington-DC_FULL-PAGE-8x10-inch_275dpi-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D.C, GRAVURE SECTION SEPTEMBER 8, 1940 &#8220;TRAGEDY ON THE AIRWAYS&#8221; Jumbled wreckage of crashed airliner as night falls on gruesome scene where 25 persons\u00a0met death near&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}