Show 5 Meet Death as Airplane Fans Bursts Into Flames Motor Trouble Held Cause of Kansas Air Disaster REX R. R GOAD United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY Kan Jan 28 UP UP UP-A A black mark on the snow in an open field hero marked the place today where five persons wore were crushed and burned to death in a flaming airplane Pilot Duke Laudeman apparently struggling with a a. falling failing motor had mado an effort to land his Travel Travel- air six-passenger six carrier at a time when he could see seo tho the swinging beacon and red markers of ot l Fairfax airport his goal just a mile awn away The airplane which flew from Crom Wichita Kan late Monday Monda was behind schedule and darkness had closed in when th the tho trouble devel devel- Laudeman losing altitude according according ac as- cording cording- to witnesses es swung away from a building building- then went vent Into a a. vertical bank to crash from about ICO ic feet Tho The crew of a switch engine near tho tue scene scone said fald the craft was en enveloped en- en In flames before It fell The motor was broken In half hal both sections digging Into the hard ground The steel framework and undercarriage was twisted and charred Everything else Including Including- the bodies of oe tho the pilot and his four tour passengers was wai burned DEAD IN CRASH The dead were verc Pilot Dul Duke Duka Laudeman Kansas City Kan S Passengers rs Miss Margaret Dice St. St Joseph i Mo C. C R. R Mcl Chicago branch mana manager cr of the Robbins Bobbins Me Meyers I Continued on page 4 |