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Anyone know what the headline was about..


in the second 'local' newspaper Marlowe was reading in the car coming away from the jail early in the movie?

Something like 'A rain of jet parts' fall to...40 to 50 pieces fall on W....' is briefly seen as he is holding the paper.

Does anyone living in the Los Angeles area in 1972/73 at that time, know what event that headline was referring to?

There was a very nasty and infamous crash 5 years later with similar details:-
'Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182' with 'parts' defintely falling over populated areas!

http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-psa182.shtml

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