- 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
Victims--Georgia--Atlanta
Eastern Air Lines
Atlanta Municipal Airport (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of unidentified men surveying the wreckage of Eastern Air Lines flight 21, which crashed in a pine grove 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 82.94.23
ahc082094023a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/310
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
