January 28, 1948

Fresno, California

Plane Crash, Deportees

Thirty-two people perished when a plane crashed near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California in Fresno County on the 28th of January 1948.  The plane caught fire, starting in the left engine-drive fuel pump, 50 miles after its departure from Oakland California.  The victims of the plane crash include four Americans, Franck attkinson the pilot, his wife Bobbi Attkinson who served as...