[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0061]
Description:
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, left, chief of the U. S. army air corps, and Capt. Ira C. Eaker, noted Army Flier, had a narrow escape from death when the landing gear of the plane in which they were flying to Panama folded up as they stopped to refuel at Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, June 5."
Date:
June 6, 1931
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