Air Race Accident, 1929

ID: 1502 | This file appears in: Cleveland National Air Races
Air Race Accident, 1929
Accidents, sometimes resulting in pilot fatalities, were an unfortunate reality at the National Air Races. In this photograph taken in Cleveland during the 1929 Air Races, a crowd gathers around the wreckage of a plane crash in a field nearby the airport.

During the 1949 Thompson Trophy Race, pilot Bill Odom crashed his plane into a home in Berea, killing himself and two occupants -- a mother and her infant child -- inside. This was the final year that the National Air Races were held in Cleveland.

Image courtesy of Cleveland State Library Special Collections
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