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Boeing’s Stratoliner: Beginning and ending with a crash

The Stratoliner was set to be an aviation game changer before its route to popularity was interrupted by WWII. Nearly 60 years later, it still managed to make headlines.

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State Patrol officer Joe Sladek's head juts from the wreckage of the experimental aircraft, the Boeing Stratoliner, which crashed near Alder, Washington in Pierce County on March 18, 1939, killing all 10 on board.
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