This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7682 Message Board Post: Private Plane Crash Kills Two A pilot and. a passenger of a light private plane lost their lives as a result of a crash at Ridgecrest Airport, Monday evening at 6:.30 PM. The pilot, Verne Disney and the passenger, George W. Pratt. were both civilian employees of the China Lake Naval Test Station. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Keller, eye witnesses to the accident, stated that they had stopped to watch the plane landing, but it overshot the runway, banked over sharply and went into a dive. Both men were thrown clear of the plane but were pronounced D.O.A. at the Ridgecrest Hospital. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 29 May 1952