Fliers Forced To Land in Newark Bay (Q86482977)
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Fliers Forced To Land in Newark Bay (English)
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14 May 1935
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Fliers Forced To Land in Newark Bay. Jersey City, New Jersey; May 14, 1935. (Associated Press) A forced landing in Newark Bay left Eddie Schneider, lessee of the Jersey City airport and former junior cross country flying champion, and Fred Weigel, wet and chilled but otherwise unharmed. Schneider took aloft a biplane late yesterday to give instruction to Weigel, a student pilot. The ship was about 150 feet In the air when something went wrong. Schneider brought It down on the water about 150 feet from abort. Someone at the airport the police and the fliers were rescued by the emergency squad. The plane was submerged in ten feet of water. (English)
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