English subtitles for clip: File:1946-07-11 Hughes Plane Crash.ogv

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Howard Hughes, famous flyer and sportsman, was dragged out of

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this wreckage of an experimental plane he was testing.

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He was seriously injured.

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After ripping the corner from two homes in Beverly Hills, California,

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the plane finally plunged into this house.

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The force of the impact virtually wrecked the building

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and caused the plane to catch fire.

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The flyer said that the accident was due to motor failure

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shortly after his take-off.

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He failed to make a crash landing on a golf course.

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Dennis O'Keefe, film actor, inspects damage done the home

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of Lieutenant Colonel Meyers, chief interpreter at

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the Nuremberg War Trials.

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America's aviation trailblazers willingly pay the price

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in man's conquest of the air.