- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Eastern Air Lines Crash, Flight 21
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1941-02-27
- Subject:
- Airline industry
Airplanes--1940-1950
Accidents--Georgia--Atlanta
Aircraft accidents--Georgia--Atlanta
Aircraft--Georgia--Atlanta
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta
Eastern Air Lines - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of an unidentified girl and her dog posing in front of the wreckage of an engine from Eastern Air Lines Flight 21, while other unidentified people look on in the background. The flight crashed in a pine grove just south of Atlanta Municipal Airport (now Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.)
Eastern Air Lines Flight 21, was a Douglas DC-3 aircraft that clipped a tree and crashed in a pine grove south of Atlanta Municipal Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. Sixteen of the 25 on board were killed. Among the injured was Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I hero and (at the time) president of Eastern Air Lines. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.94.20
ahc082094020a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/307
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
