The Archive · 1939

Five U.S. Navy Planes Crash in Florida

Pensacola, Fla,, Feb, 21

Five out of twelve Nova) Station planes engaged in a formation flight crashed late last night when all the machines were forced to make a blind Tending after their petrol exhausted, it was revealed here today. One Brazilian Navy student pilot wi killed, but the other pilots were "not dangerously" injured, the officials at the Naval Station said, While the twelve planes were engaged in a formation flight they ran into a thick fog, The fox kept them aloft until their, petro} supplies. ran out and they decided to take a chance Jand make a blind landing. "Five of the planes were destroyed—United Press,

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