LH2586 Airplane crash, looking up from King Street
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white image of a plane held by hydro wires on top of the buildings on the north side of King Street West, just west of the four corners at King and Simcoe Streets.
People can be seen on the room of the building. - Notes
- A JN-4, attempting a forced landing on Oshawa's main street on 22 April 1918, became entangled with telephone wires and pinned near the top of a store front where it remained suspended for several hours. The uninjured pilot, Cadet Weiss, was part of an ambitious flight training program initiated by the Royal Flying Corps to train Canadians to fly during World War I.
- Date of Original
- April 22, 1918
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- LH2586
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.90012 Longitude: -78.84957
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- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- PHOTO GPC B-004 000253
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
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Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
