19 Die in Air-Liner Crash
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UTAH DISASTER 18 Bodies Hurled Distance of 100 Feet DOCTOR'S VAIN QUEST
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(Eeceived '20, 10.50 a.m.) NEW YOEK, Oet. 19. Searchers for the air-liner whieh crashed in the Utah mountains fouiicl the 19 occupants dead. Eighteen of the bodies had been hurled from a hoie behind the pilot's cockpit and scattered 100 feet from the plane. A physician whose niece was a passenger and an ex^ectant mother vainly joined the expedition with the hope that, even if she were dead, he would be able to perform a caesarian operation and deliver the child. The air-liner was located from the air. It was completely smashed on a steep, woode-d mourrfainside accessible only by liorseback. An expedition was immediately organised. The occupants of the plane ineluded four women. The mishap oceurred 10,000 feet up, the plane apparently crasliing through trees. The opinion is expressed that the maehine would have cleared the ridge upon which it crashed if it had been flying 100 feet higher. It is described as the worst plane crash in the history of the' TJnited States.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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18719 Die in Air-Liner Crash Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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