Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-27 | Page 2 | Air Liner Crash is Fourth in Last Six Months

Air Liner Crash Is Fourth In Last Six Months By Associated Press The crash of an Eastern Air AirLines AirLines AirLines Lines plane near Atlanta Ga Thursday was the fourth commercial commercial com com- mercial l air wreck in the six months since a month 17 no- no accident record was broken l last st August And like Thursdays Thursday's crash in which s seven ven were killed the three intervening accidents occurred occurred oc oc- c crr rr d as the planes neared the safety of airports Until a Pennsylvania Central Airlines transport carried 25 persons persons per per persons sons including Senator Ernest Erne ErnestA t A A. Lundeen to death near Lovettsville Lovettsville Lov- Lov Va August 30 there had be bees been q no fatal commercial airline accidents in the United States in 17 months and four tour days Two months later on November November November No No- vember 4 a United Air Liner crashed into a m mountain 0 u n t a i n nIn in Utah killing 10 persons The plane had reported by radio that it was only 25 m miles les from Salt Lake City and preparing to land Jand there On December 4 another United United Unit Unit- ed Air Air- AirLines Lines transport crashed as it dropped down toward a runway at the Chicago airport Eight were killed v And on January 23 a Transcontinental Transcontinental Trans Tran-I continental and Western Airship Air All Airship ship struck a tree as it settled down for tor a landing at St St. L Louis and nosed over to earth Fourteen Fourteen Fourteen Four Four- teen were aboard but only two met death the death the pilot and a T TW TW W WA A aboard as a pass pass pass- enger