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Show 8 FOUND DEAD IN AIR LINER Rodies Found Crushed and Chaired In Blizzard-Swept Tehachapi Mountains. LOS ANGELES. Calif., Feb. 5 1 1 r.Rj Just a week alter a Century-Pacific Century-Pacific air liner crashed in the blizzard-swept Tehachapi mountains moun-tains bodies of the eight victims, crushed and charred, were to be brought to Bakersfiold today. Six days of search revealed the twisted skeleton of the plane on a 2.000-foot hillside four miles west of Fort Tcjon, not far from Lebec, Paul Appadeca, Indian range rider, found the wreckage.. The plane had struck with terrific ter-rific force. Pilot J. W. Sandhlom, with a record of 4,000 hours in the air, had had no time to switch off the ignition. - . Cascading gasoline from the wreck fired, incinerating the eight occupants in a brief burst of flame. Sandblom's body was crushed under un-der a huddle of (he three great motors. Six others were massed i at the plane's front. Only one, that of Mrs. F. H. Ficheisen of San Diego, had been thrown clear. Appadeca sighted the wreckage I and turned and mushed through I the snow toward Fort Tejon. "I tlidn't want to sec the dead," he :;aid. Loads Deputies to Wreck He met four fish and game, dep-ul dep-ul ies and led them to the wreck. The plane was on the regular route between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. Its position indicated the pilot had despaired of reaching his destination in the raging blizzard, bliz-zard, and had turned hack toward H.-ikersfield. The undercarriage had been torn off as the plane sheared a short path through scrub oak. The wings were not broken, although the fuselage fuse-lage vas crushed. The occupants had no time to struggle for freedom free-dom after the crash, if any lived. The ship apparently had struck and immediately caught fire. Had the plane been 7.r) feet higher it would have cleared the rim of Johnson canyon, and probably to turned safely to Bakersfield. . ' |