Valley Times Today, North Hollywood, California, Thursday, March 8, 1962
Burbank Pilot Dies As Plane Crashes Saugus Power Line
Services are pending today for a Burbank pilot killed when his World War II trainer struck a power line and crashed Wednesday March 7, 1962. Sheriff’s officials said Jack Robert Lewis, 38, 530 Jamestown Road, Burbank, was apparently buzzing the home of a fellow worker five miles northwest of Saugus when the accident occurred.
LEWIS, a supervisor at General Controls Company, Glendale, had taken off earlier in the single-engine plane from Whiteman Airpark in Pacoima. Lewis apparently buzzed low over the home of Andrew Jepson, 45, in San Francisquito Canyon, and had engine trouble as he changed the pitch of the props of the old trainer. The plane plunged into a hillside where it burst into flames.
JEPSON, a machine maintenance repairman, said the plane crashed about 200 yards from his home. He ran to the house of Mrs. Kay E. Hansen, 27602 Santa Clarita Road, and she called the fire and sheriff’s departments. Lewis leaves his wife, Maurine, 40, and a daughter, Robin, 15.
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Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California, Thursday, March 8, 1962
Pilot Buzzes Friend’s Home, Dies in Crash
SAUGUS – The pilot of a World War II training plane was killed Wednesday when the plane’s engine failed as he swooped low over the home of a friend in San Francisquito Canyon.
According to sheriff’s deputies, Jack Robert Lewis, 38, Burbank, crashed into a hillside after diving through a 220,000-volt power line.
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