Show Mercy Plane Hits Hils Mesa Killing 10 1 0 Men SAN DIEGO CaL Feb 2 24 UP Jp Nine Nine coast guardsmen were dead and two severely injured Monday victims of a flying boats boat's crash on a mercy mission near nea Tijuana Mexico in which a stricken fisherman fisherman fisherman fish fish- erman they were aiding was also killed The 10 lives Jives were crushed out as the two engine P B M Mariner returning from i mile 1400 roun round roundtrip trip to sea struck near the top of ofa ofa ofa a high foot mesa late Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night It bounded to the top scattering bodies and blazing wreckage over a avide wide vide area I Before crashing the plane pIano ha had II circled San Diego bay unable to land Its last radio message at 1036 pm p.m. said it was letting down off the Coronado islands Ina in ina a dense fog tog Gab Leavitt 23 of ot San Diego was the fisherman killed He ha had been taken off the fishing boat Dorothy Lee n near e ear a r Altamura Mex ex ill Ul with pneumonia and was being brought here Names of the other dead were no not disclosed pending notification o of relatives but the pilot and copilot previously identified when the plane started the mission Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day morning were morning were Lt Emerson Miles 27 of ot San Diego and Aviation Pilot First Class Fabian J. J K Kestell tell 27 Spokane Spokane Spokane kane Wash The two survivors were identified tied fled at the navy hospital here as is Radi Radioman man Third Class Howard Howart Leon Day San Leandro CaL anc and Machinists Machinist's Mate Second Class Roy toy Hughes of Avoca Tex Day was hurled clear of the wreckage strapped in a n plane chair in which he sat overnight with a broken brokenleg brokenleg brokenleg leg and head injuries until help arrived Hughes was able to pull some of or the bodies out of the wreckage and rig bunk on the sagebrush mesa with a life Ufe raft and parachute His waving helped another coast coastguard coastguard guard plane spot the wreckage at am a.m. Sunday Mexican authorities authorities au au- au- au authorized removal of oC the bodies which were brought here |