Biography
Carl was born in Decatur, Michigan on April 17, 1893. On Monday, May 16, 1938 at 2:07 p.m. a new Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra was carrying Northwest Airlines and Lockheed Corporation employees and family members. The aircraft took off from Burbank Airport for Las Vegas, Nevada, where the aircraft was to be formally turned over to Northwest Airlines, and then it was to be flown to St. Paul, Minnesota to the airline's headquarters. The plane was flying in fog above the Mint Canyon when it crashed at 3,300 feet in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, 27 minutes after taking off from Burbank. All seven passengers on board, including a three-year-old boy and an infant girl, were killed instantly. Among the victims were Frederick Whittemore, 42, a pilot and vice-president of operations at Northwest Airlines, and Lenna Squier, 34, Carl B. Squier's wife, the vice-president in charge of sales at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Squiers was in Chicago when his wife was killed. Carl died on Los Angeles on November 5, 1967. He was buried in the Portal of Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation.
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