Plane crash near Indian Mounds Park
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People were fascinated with the development of flight and according to a newspaper, "large crowds of onlookers throng the bluffs overlooking the airport." On June 24, 1929, they gathered near the park to gaze at a plane. Unfortunately, it was a Northwest Airlines passenger/air mail plane that had lost power and crashed near the intersection of Mounds Boulevard and River Street (today's Wilshire Street). The veteran pilot, Edwin H. Middagh died in the initial impact and the plane caught fire, but all of the seven passengers escaped.
Photographer: Paul F. Wright, Northwestern Photographic Studio, Inc.
Date: June 24, 1929
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Beacon on the Bluff
Beacon on the Bluff
Air travel was changing from a novelty to a serious form of transportation by the 1920’s. The federal government supported this new industry by paying to have planes deliver mail. Over 600 airway beacons were constructed by the post Office and the…