Aeronautics: Ludington's First

The Law of Averages, which allowed planes of the Ludington Line to fly 10,000 trips between New York, Philadelphia and Washington without accident, balanced the score with fearful vengeance one day last week. A fast Lockheed Orion of the line crashed and burned at Camden. N. J. killing all occupants, the pilot & four passengers.

Pilot Floyd C. Cox took off from Newark Airport for what ordinarily would have been a 68-min. express flight to Washington. This time a special stop was to be made at Camden to discharge one of the passengers,...

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