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Show 8 KILLED IN AIRLINE CRASH OKLAHOMA CI I V, March 2-, (L'.I!)--A preliminary investigation indicated today that the takeoff , cra.sh of a Branilf air liner which . killed eight persons and injured four others early yesterday was caused by motor failure and visibility visi-bility "too hazy" to allow a suc-' suc-' cessful emergency landing. !. Co-pilot Malcolm Wallace, who, with Pilot Claude Seaton and two , passengers managed to crawl from the wrecked plane only a moment before it exploded, said the left motor "failed immediately after the take-off" from municipal airport air-port at 2:42 a. m. Sunday. When the motor failed, he said, both he and Seaston knew they would have to land and so advised ad-vised the pascngers by flashing an electric .sign in the cabin ordering order-ing adjustment of safely belts. Wallace was unable to explain the origin of a fire which licked up through the floor behind the cockpit when the plane, aftei bounding- several hundred feet in a field a mile from the airport, crashed into a fence. The ignition igni-tion and gasoline lines had been cut before the plane crashed, he said. The five evidently was responsible respon-sible for the three gasoline explosions ex-plosions which destroyed the plane and turned it into a roaring death pyre fur seven passengers and the .stewardess. The dead were: Allen, Miss J.. Evanston, 111. Hate, 11. T., Denver. ('aire, Scnor Jerim, Calleon, Bilbao, Bil-bao, Mr.. Cnplin, 15., Chicago. Grossman, 15., Aurora, III. Hinckley, Mrs. K-, I'ort Isabel, Tex. Sheldon, Mrs. Georgia, Salina, Kansas. Zarr, Miss Louise, stewardess, Dallas. The ship, a DoughLs 14-passen-ger, was enroute from Chicago to Dallas. |