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Ben Clift Tennessee 1927
Posted by: Mary McClain-Richardson (ID *****4473) Date: July 22, 2007 at 12:43:27
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mARCH 21, 1927
THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN

PASSENGER DYING, PILOT BADLY HURT, IN PLANE CRASH

(special to the Tennessean)
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 20--Plunging 150 feet in an airplane at Marr Field late this afternoon, Ben Clift, pilot, and L.D. Holloway, passenger, were injured, the latter probably fatally.
Clift said at the hospital that he believed the accident was due to a pin and intimated that the machine had been tampered with. A large crowd wittnessed the crash and rushed to the rescue of the victims. Holloway was caught in the wreck, suffering a fractured skull., fractured jawbones, and pobbile internal injuriess.


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