BRUSH WITH DEATH
Received Friday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 19. Eightv-four persons had a brusli witli death over Aberdeen, Maryland, todav when two Aliami-bound • passenger planes collided in mid-air. Oue plane, a four-engined DC4 carrying 56 pa.ssengers and four members of the crew, had its tail damaged but the pilot fiew it on to a smooth landing at Washiug- - ton airport where . tire engines, ainbulances aipl other emergency services were waiting. The other was a twinengined aircraft with 21 passeugers and three nienibers of tlie crew. It had tlie windshield of the cockpit caved in, a liole knocked in the fuseiage and the hydraulic system put out of action but the pilot brought it down safely at 'Aberdeen Arniv airlield. It was tlie first time two airliners flying in tlie same direction had coJlided. The Federal safoty rcgulations require planes flying in opposite directions to maintain difl'erent altitude-. - The. twin-engined plane was on a non scheduled fliglit.,-.' : •' '* /■ l'
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 December 1946, Page 5
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