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Westover died, aged 55, in a plane crash on September 21, 1938. The Northrop A-17AS he flew, a single-engined attack aircraft used as a high-speed staff transport, had a reputation for stalling, and only a month before, Col. William McChord had been killed in the crash of one. Westover's aircraft, AC serial 36-349, experienced a high-speed stall and crashed in a crosswind short of the runway at Lockheed Aircraft's air field in Burbank, California, now known as Bob Hope Airport. No one on the ground was killed, but his crew chief S/Sgt Samuel Hymes also died. Oscar Westover is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Westover Joint Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, formerly the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, and now the largest reserve base in the Air Force as home to the 439th Airlift Wing, is named in his honor. wiki info

This is a photo of the September 18, 1929 crash in Burbank, California of the second Lockheed 4 Explorer (c/n 116), also the second named "City of Tacoma" and wearing the registration NR856H (the same registration as the first aircraft). Lockheed test pilot Herb Fahy had taken the aircraft up for a test flight when the tail started to experience flutter. The flutter resulted in first the rudder and then the vertical stabilizer tearing loose from the aircraft. Despite the damage, Fahy managed to bring the aircraft down suffering only a broken elbow and bruises in the resulting crash. See: aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=151211 and www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Aircraft/Lockheed-Explorer.html

Excellent picture ! Terrible situation