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25th March 2022, 16:31
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Boeing O2B-1 Bird Strike 8 March 1928 Nicaragua
From Newpapers reports
AIRPLANE; Marine Captain and a Sergeant Crash in Nicaragua When Vulture Breaks Strut. PARACHUTES FAIL TO OPEN Plane Was About to Land at Esteli--Birds Are Greatest Peril to Fliers There. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 8. 1928-- Captain William Carl Byrd and Sergeant Rudolph Adolph Frankforter were killed this afternoon in the crash of their airplane when about to land on the marine flying field at Esteli, one of the northern provinces, in which Sandinistas recently were active. This is listed as a O2B Plane Boeing O2B-1 maybe Marine Observation Sqn 6 (VO-6M) Byrd Birth Date 29 Sep 1895 Frankforter Birth Date 19 Jan 1892 Can anyone please provide an ID for the aircraft thanks Paul 
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