Friday 24 July 2015

Leonardo da Vinci crash-lands at Clooneyogan, County Clare, 1934

This short film on the crash-landing of the Leonardo da Vinci at Clooneyogan, Moy in May, 1934 has just been released on Youtube. The airplane was on a first attempt to fly directly from New York to Rome, but crash-landed on Hennessy’s farm in Clooneyogan, Moy, County Clare. The pilots - Lieutenant Cesare Sabelli and Captain George Pond – were feted in Lahinch, Ennis, and later in Dublin. An account of the landing by Colin Hennessy can be found on Clare County Library’s website at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/hennessy/political_life.htm and more photographs of the event can be seen in Foto here...

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