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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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A twin-engine plane crashed and burned in a Reno residential district due to engine failure from freezing temperatures during a snowstorm. Pilot Capt. Clarence Booth was killed, but four passengers escaped unhurt. The plane narrowly missed a house.
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Reno Residential District
RENO, Nev., (AP) - A twin-engine plane, one engine conked out by freezing temperatures, crashed and burned today in a residential district. The pilot was killed but his four passengers escaped virtually unhurt.
The plane narrowly missed plowing into a house.
Reserve Army Capt. Clarence Booth of San Lorenzo, Calif., died in the flaming wreckage as he brought his crippled plane down through a driving snowstorm in a futile attempt to reach the Reno airport.
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Reno, Nev.
Event Date
Today
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pilot killed; four passengers escaped virtually unhurt.
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A twin-engine plane, one engine conked out by freezing temperatures, crashed and burned in a residential district. The plane narrowly missed plowing into a house. Reserve Army Capt. Clarence Booth of San Lorenzo, Calif., died in the flaming wreckage as he brought his crippled plane down through a driving snowstorm in a futile attempt to reach the Reno airport.