Paper: Reno Evening Gazette City: Reno, Nevada Date: Thursday, September 27, 1934 Page: 12
Meteor Bursts Near Airplane On Coast Trip
Several Nevada passengers, riding a United Airlines plane received one of those "once in a life time thrills" early this morning when a blazing meteor burst seemingly within a few hundred yards of the airliner, Co-Pilot Archie Anderson of the early morning transcontinental plane reported on his arrival in Oakland.
Anderson said he was at the controls in the sky over Fairfield, Solano county, when he saw the meteor. Instinctively, he swerved the plane, then he realized he couldn't expect to dodge anything coming so fast. At that moment the meteor exploded.
"I looked around suddenly when Anderson swerved the ship," said Pilot Jack O'Brien, "just in time to see the final flash of the meteor, Boy, it was close. That fireball seemed right in front of the propellers."
Passengers cried out, and LaVon Mase, a truck driver who saw the meteor and heard the roar of the plane's motors, telephoned Oakland police an airplane had fallen in flames.
Aboard the ship were William Scott of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. A. Biehl of Chicago; John P. Hunter of Chicago; Dorothy Taylor of Elko, Nev.; J. McManana of Elko; W.P. Dressler of Reno, and W.F. Drisch of Reno, passengers; the two pilots, and Miss Lucille Gillett, stewardess.
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