Fleet and Planes Return From Manceuvres San Diego, Feb. 5.
Led by 29 sister ships of the two giant Navy bombers which crashed and caused eleven deaths on February 2, the fleet returned to port this morning upon completion of night manceuvres off the California coast, The crash occurred during a night flight of the air arm of the fleet off the coast of California. The two Navy bombers collided in mid-air in view of several battleships and twenty destroyers which immediately rushed to the scene of the crash.
Only four men were rescued. One of them, however, died later, increasing the total of dead to eleven.
It was the most disastrous Navy crash between heavier-then-air craft history. Teh men were killed in-stently. Four bailed out in parachutes, but one was badly injured and died despite aid.
A sudden rain squall was blamed for the accident by Navy officials.
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