Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-11-13 | Page 3 | Plane Joy Ride Ends in Death

PLANE JOY RIDE ENDS IN DEATH Three Passengers Killed Pilot Injured When Ship Strikes House NEW YORK Nov 13 JP-An JP An An airplane airplane airplane air air- plane joy ride turned to tragedy when Stanley Kitkowski year old took look three of his friends on an early morning jaunt to top off en on all night dance The plane crashed into a Brooklyn tenement house and the three friends were killed The pilot himself was near death from injuries The dead were Louis Louts H. H Kuhn Kuhn- 19 Henry 21 and nd Adam Rowen Bowers ski 21 all of Brooklyn The four youths left an Armistice day dance at dawn Sunda Sunday went to Curtiss airport Valley Stream m L. L I. I and Kitkowski KUkowski rented a plane for the ride It developed trouble soon after aUer the takeoff and the pilot was forced to fly low He struck a church steeple brushed an elevated station and sent pedestrians in the street scurrying to safety Police Pollee cars followed the plane 3 as asit asit it dipped d over oyer Brooklyn and were near 91 alhand t hand when the ship struck the tenement house and hurtled to the street A family occupying the top floor of the tenement were uninjured as the plane struck the building although part of the ceiling of their ap apartment fell lell down