BLOWN OUT OF PLANE
ROSTON, :.:ar. 11. Describing how the navigator, Georgc Hart, was blovvn out of the astrodome of a Oonstellation. 19,000 feet over the Atlantic vesterday night, a passenger, a waitime Naval Comniander, Artlnir Holzman, said: ''The navigator was standing 011 a stool with the sextaui in his haiuls and liead in the astrodome with the pilot, purser and stewardess standing around. Suddenly the^b was a terrilie noise and rush of air. Han shot up and just disappeared. Dense vapour formed in the cockpit and the plane veered sharply. Every joose papc. and article was sucked through tlu hole as the plane veered but tlie purser, Carlyle Smith, tackled her and then raced to sliut the outer cockpit door to stop the rush of air. He forced pari of the smashed inner cockpit down intu the hole where the astrodome had been The purser was a hero. The' pilot thm took the sliip down to 7000 feet."
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 March 1947, Page 5
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