AIR HOSTESS GIVES LIFE TO SAVE PASSENGERS
Received Tttesday> 10.45 a.m. NEW YORKj Dec. 1. An air hostess, Reva Monk, aged 22, gave up her life tu save ■ the passengers yesterday when a Skymaster overshot the SeattleTacoma Airpoft and smashed intp a car on an adjoining highway. A blind woUian passenger in ihe car was killed and the toll .from the crash is liow seven dead and 23 injured. The number of deaths would have been considerably ^reater if it had not been for the hostess' devolion to duty. Miss Monk helped passengers through the dense black snioke in the plane's biazing fuselage until she collapsed and was carried from the plane by a passeriger. She died from her burns.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1947, Page 5
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