MAN FALLS FROM AIRLINER

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28259, 23 April 1957, Page 14

MAN FALLS FROM AIRLINER

Blown From Seat As Window Breaks

(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) NEW YORK, April 21. An American tourist was blown out of an Air France Super-Con-stellation to his death when a window in the pressurised cabin shattered 18,000 ft over northern Iraq last night. According to reports, the American, Mr Jack Nash, was asleep with his head resting against the twin-paned Window. When the glass shattered, the air pressure in the cabin shot him out into space. The sudden shattering blast in the middle of the three compartments in the fuselage of the fourengined Constellation brought the steward on the run. He saw the shattered window and the empty seat, but it was not until the passenger list was checked that Mr Nash’s disappearance was noted. The airliner was flying to Istanbul from Teheran. The crew said that the cabin was immediately filled with thick vapour and cold air. All the passengers were moved into the rear and front cabin compartments. None suffered any injury. ~ Informed of the accident, the pilot immediately sent the aircraft into a dive and finished the flight to Istanbul at an altitude; where pressurisation was not necessary. Passengers questioned at Istanbul said they had seen nothing. Mpst of them did not realise that anvthing was wrong until they feit their ears “pop” and the temperature drop suddenly.