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On this day, August 31, 1940, Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashed near Lovettsville VA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_31• 1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.