DC-3’s Wing Broken In Flight

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28260, 24 April 1957, Page 13

DC-3’s Wing Broken In Flight

(Rec. 10 p.m.) . „„ 1 PHOENIX (Arizona), April 22. : About 10ft of the left wing of a i Frontier Airlines DC-3 was ripped i off in flight yesterday when the J aircraft hit a violent downdraught. The pilot brought his stormbuffeted machine, with 23 frigh- i tened passengers and a crew of ■ three, in for a safe landing at - Phoenix half an hour later. Airline officials immediately began trying to determine whether the aircraft had scraped against the ground. The airline's operations manager said, after examining the ragged edge of the wing, that it had apparently “hit some object, but we're not at all sure what it was.’’ Officials said that 10ft to 12ft of the total 95ft wingspan had been chopped off, but most of the “flying” surface was intact The pilot, Captain Dale Welling, reported that the DC-3 had been battered by turbulent air currents from Prescott to Phoenix, a distance of about 85 air miles. The wing section was lost about 55 mile? north-east of Phoenix. Rugby League Matches In Britain (Rec. 8 p.m.y LONDON, April 22. Results of today’s Rugby League s matches were:— ; Batley 5. Dewsbury 15; Bradford • Northern 22, Hull Kingston Rovers i 18; Bramley 30, Doncaster 12; Hudt dersfleld 21, Barrow 13; Hull 35, . Halifax 12; Hunslet 12, Keighley ■ 14; Leigh 24, Warrington 10; St. s Helens 48, Blackpool Borough 10; ! Salford 15, Wigan 10; Wakefield r Trinity 18, Featherstone Rovers i 7; Widnes 45, Liverpool City 0; - Workington Town 20, Swinton 13; York 44, Whitehaven 11.