13 DIE IN PLANE DISASTER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 60, 27 March 1937, Page 6

13 DIE IN PLANE DISASTER

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American Transpori Machine ENGINES FAIL

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(Received 27, 8.45 a.m.) PITTSBURGH* March 35. A .transport 'plane with ten p«H sengers and a crew of ®r _ near here. All are xeported .dead. Be* dents in the neighbourhood saad heard the motors faih Five bodi^ were removed from the wreckage, ^ A later messaga says it » yenfle# ,)that 13 are dead, The 'plane crashed no«e fit« ■ gully near a highway, The wkigi _aaq . tail are ihtact but the cabiu ^ ® eplinlw ers. The 'plane was prepariag to landi . The cause as yet un determined was at( first attributed to heavy fog and smokej but the president of the Airline Midf .there was a ceiling pf 4OO f06t and thej 'plane was at an altitude of 3100 feet{ before it dived. There were three women passengers and one in. the crewj The victims are 3jiostly saies executiveil of oil and insurance pnblishing com* •panies. j Mr H, S, Griest said: "My wife and I| were motoring along the road when aj. 'plane hit head-first less than 50 feet iaj front of us, .We parked and ran to thej wreck, The first thing I noticed was aj iwoman's hand stickhig out of thd. wreekage. There was smqke but no firsJ We lifted oue side of the smaehed cabia| and began jto remove bodieSj"