Accidents, sometimes resulting in pilot fatalities, were an unfortunate reality at the National Air Races. In this photograph taken in Cleveland during the 1929 Air Races, a crowd gathers around the wreckage of a plane crash in a field nearby the airport. Twenty years later during the 1949 Thompson Trophy Race, pilot Bill Odom crashed his plane into a home in Berea, killing himself and two occupants – a mother and her infant child – inside. This was the final year that the National Air Races were held in Cleveland. | Creator: Cleveland Press | Date: 1929 | Source: Cleveland Memory, Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections at Cleveland State UniversityDownload Original File
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Cleveland Memory, Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections at Cleveland State University
