| Show SEA FLIER BURNS IN CRASH SPEED PILOT IS KILLED FAMOUS S ACE MEETS DEATH AMID FLAMES De Pinedo Caught in Fiery Trap as PJ Plane ne Strikes Steel Fence v RESCUE EFFORTS FF FA FAIL L Start of Proposed Record Flig Flight t Becomes Horror BROOKLYN N. N Y Sept 2 Gen 2 General Gen Gen- era eral Francesco Francesc de Pinedo one of Italy's most famous airmen met flam- flam flaming flam i ing irig death shortly after dawn today when his huge pl plane e crashed a arid and d burned up at the start of ot a takeoff for Baghdad B d. d Iraq A tremendous load of gasoline 1027 gallons caused his giant n re red green and purple plane to swerve from a a concrete runway runway- and hit bit a fence tence t at Floyd Bennett airport In a a. second it waSll was a roaring rog mass me and the was vas burned beyond rec g- g rr r Sr 4 iy- iy v T Th The at start star rt of what C Y the had hoped would be a nonstop record flight b became a scene of horror Spectators Spectators Spec Spec- shuddered t and covered their eyes as they saw fire engulf the air air- man Attendants rushed to the scene and tried to pull out but the James flames forced them b back ck Michael Hicks HicksBeach B Beach a naval machinists machinist's mate was badly burned about the face trying to reach De Pinedo with a fire extin- extin I The plane burned only a a afew few seconds see sec ec- ec before it was wa-s a mass mus of metal wreckage The body was found lying beside it and it and field officials officialS' said that the flier lier had jumped and attempted to crawl away before the fire killed him HITS STEEL FENCE I De Dc Pined Pinedo's z s plane was traveling I about 70 10 miles an hour when it hit the steel wire fence at a a. a m m. II eastern standard time He had ered about 2000 feet of ot otI I the mile-long mile concrete runway before I disaster overtook him bin The plane lurching under tinder its great load of fuel refused to rise One wheel got of off the ground but fell back then the plane swerved into th the dirt along the runa run run- way a De Pinedo going perhaps miles mItes an hour got the craft b back bajck ck to the concrete again but buta a moment later later-it swerved s again and dashed toward the fence as De Pinedo applied his screeching brakes A crowd of people who had got Continued on on Pare Pace Two FAMOUS FAMOUS' F AM ACE MEETS DEATH AMID FLAMES Continued from Pare Page One up in the middle of the night to t see seethe seethe the take off of and who had cheered De Dc Pinedo as he stepped carefree into the plane lane stood as a the charred body was carried to the navys navy's sick bay blY at the field The plane which was wa red with wih green and purple stripes encircling it I had been groomed for lor weeks week by bythe bythe bythe the flier fer with wih the help of his hi technIcal technical technical cal adviser and backer U Ugo o DAn nunzio son of the famous po t Gabriel Gabriel Ga Ga- briel DAnnunzio DESCRIBES DESCRIES GADGETS With a smile the flier fer who had followed the skyways thousands on thousands of ol miles mies to far corners corers of the earth told of his gadgets gadget shortly shortly shortly short short- ly before the take off He had equipped the cockpit with wih a device devie which would sound a n siren and slap water into ito his hi face if i the plane got gotoff gotoff off ol its course while he was wa snatching 40 winks high above the Atlantic had five balloon kites kte with which to signal sigal to ships ship if i the craft was wa forced down at sea but his hi confident confident confident con con- manner as he started the takeoff takeoff teo take take- te- te off o indicated that bad luck was w s far fa from his mind DAnnunzio speaking with wih white whiteface whiteface face lace and tears in his eyes said after the crash crash Of course when you start to sway in a plane everyone knows that the farther you go the worse it i gets I thought sure he would cut the switch but he had been here so long he was determined to goI goI goI go I think he still thou thought ht he could lift the load even though he had got goto gotoff gotoff o off the r runway By flying the miles mies to Baghdad Baghdad Baghdad Bagh Bagh- dad De Dc Pinedo had hoped to smash the long distance d tance record of 2 1 miles set by Paul Codos Codas and Maurice Rossi Roast In a flight last month from New York to Syria Syra As he stepped into the plane clad cladIn cladin cad cadIn In an old gray j jersey and blue house slippers his hi last words were wee I shall try to do m my best best n NEW YORK Sept 2 The cW-The The Marquis Marquis Mar Mar- quis De Pinedo whose life and ca career career career ca- ca reer ended in the flames names that enveloped enveloped enveloped his hi airplane today learned to fly fy in 1917 and gained his first international international tonal recognition in 1925 by a flight from Rome to TokIo Australia and return He was born on February 16 1890 and was wa never married His Hi parents live lve in Rome He attended the secondary schools of Italy and graduated from the Royal Italian Naval college He subsequently subsequent subsequent- ly rose to the command of a de de- de strayer After flying for his hi country through the war he remained with wih the ie air service and when that arm am was separated sep sep- from the army and Ond navy in 1923 he became an officer in the ItalIan Italian Ital It-al- Ial- Ial ian royal air force ACCLAIMED AS HERO Following his hI Tokio flight he was acclaimed as a a national hero and ad se selected selected se- se elected e- e with Captain Carlo Del Prete as a his hi aid to make Italy's Itly's lour lour-cont- four conti nent flight to the Americas and return return return re re- re- re turn in i 1927 The Te venture which involved air crossings of both the South and North Atlantic and flight over South Americas America's Amer Amer- ica's trackless jungles in a plane that could land only on water was generally gen gen- rally hailed by airmen as an a outstanding outstanding out out- standing feat of ot the time He lost his ship at Roosevelt Dam Ariz when a careless bystander dropped a lighted match on gasoline gasoline- covered water water during refueling The accident failed to t-o stop the flight De Dc Pinedo obtained a substitute plane and went on On his return to Italy Itly he was wa showered showered showered show show- ered with new honors promoted to a generalship and given command of the Third Aeronautical zone which included Rome Shortly after the Italian mass ma flight about the Near East Et in 1929 De Dc Pinedo was sent to Argentina as a air lof of the Italian embassy and was probably probably ably the highest ranking officer ever everto everto everto to hold such a post His Hi friends frends considered considered con con- the assignment virtual exile exie De Do Pinedo Mystery Recalled by Death ROME Sept 2 General W-General Jeneral General Francesco Fran cesco de Pinedo Italian airman killed today to take off of from New York o on a projected d to t flight to Baghdad d had been in eclipse for four years Two one involving money mone and the other a princess prince were advanced advanced ad ad- to explain his loss of the lime lime- light According to one theory De Dc Pinedo dared pay attention to Princess Glovanna Glo- Glo Glo vanna now the Bulgarian queen anc and King Victor Vitor Emmanuel requested that he be transferred outside of Italy Itly The Te other hypothesis revolves around the fact that De Dc Pinedo neglected neglected neglected neg neg- to make reports to General Halo ala Balbo on the money American American Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians contributed after his plane burned in Arizona in 1929 1 When Balbo demanded an accountIng accounting account account- ing De Dc Pinedo impulsively turned the money over to a fund for aviators aviators' or or- He did this thi without asking General Balbos Balbo's permission and thereafter thereafter there there- after ater it was said coolness coolness' s' s developed between the two men Dc De Pinedo had served as General Balbos Balbo's chief of ol staff Rome learned leared of DC De Pinedo's death deth with wih great regret The air ministry communicated the news to General Genera Balbo who is on vacation after aler his hi mass mas flight to Chicago Chiago and back back Although De Do Pinedo had practically disappeared from public view he sun still was wa regarded in air circles as a most mos competent flier fer It I was believed that the body would be brought to Italy and given funeral honors The Te period perio of the generals general's obscurity obscurity ity iy dated from 1929 when he hc was sent to Buenos A Aires res as air C |
