Westwood Plane Said Condemned
May 1, 1930
A man who gave his name as R. B. Deaton of Burlingame and who was said to be the owner of an airplane which crashed in Tuesday’s windstorm near here drove to the Westwood airport yesterday from the south and stated that he was going to take the motor back with him.
No further information could be gleaned from Deaton explaining the presence of the plane in this vicinity but it was learned from other sources that the damaged ship answered to the description of one which had been condemned by the California State Aeronautical department recently.
The opinion was also expressed that a man named Ness and a passenger brought the plane to this part of the state to elude banishment by the state’s airplane governing body. The department of commerce number on the plane’s wing was cut away, and destroyed after the crack-up, it was said.
