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People Viewing the Plane Crash Over Bridger Mountain Range, Bozeman, Montana
              Title: People Viewing the Plane Crash Over Bridger Mountain Range, Bozeman, Montana   Date: January 10, 1938   Location: Bridger Mountain Range, Montana   Photographer: Schlechten, Chris
Description: A group of people viewing the plane crash of January 10, 1938. The NW Airlines Flight #2, Lockheed Model 14H Super Electra aircraft was flying too low in the Bridger Mountains, north of Bozeman, Montana. It had been diverted from Bozeman Pass because of a dust storm and was only flying at 9,000 feet. All ten people on board died in the crash. Vintage 5.5x3.5 in. nitrate negative.
Format: image/jpeg    Source: Schlechten Collection
Rights: Copyright restrictions available from the Museum of the Rockies Photo Archive   
Catalog Number: x80.6.1496   
Subjects: Aeronautics--Disasters | Airplanes | 
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