Sixteen Dead When Planes Collide
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, July 30. Sixteen persons were killed when a DC3 airliner and Navy fighter collided and cfashed near Fort Dix, New Jersey, today. The airliner, operated by Eastern Airlines, was bound from Boston to Atlanta. All 12 passengers and three members of the crew were killed when the airliner crashed and burned. The pilot of the Navy plane was found dead in the wreckage of his machine two miles from where the airliner crashed. Tlie accident oecuiTed when a stunting Navy pilot, harassing a little Piper Cub plane, zoomed up in a fast turn and struck the airliner. George Humphrey, pilot of th'e Piper Cub, said: "The Navy plane buzzed me twice. On the second pass he pulled up iii a tight turn and crashed into the airliner just behind its wing. I don 't think he saw the airliner at all." State police reported that everyone aboard the airliner died instantly. Some bodies were thrown clearf anr others were cremated in the fire.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1949, Page 5
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