Fokker Aircraft Company of America became a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation which acquired a 40 percent holding in May 1929 , but ended operations the following year as a combination of the effect of the Great Depression and bad publicity surrounding the 1931 crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F. 10 that killed celebrated football coach Knute Rockne . Fokker ended his association with the American company in 1931 . GMC renamed their aviation subsidiary General Aviation Manufacturing Corporation , which in turn became part of North American Aviation , Inc in 1934
the 1931 crash
1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash
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