| Show J j rA y 1 J r M MI r I r r r 9 J y Y rr M r n rV toWY A ij Y A r P rr I M y pf c Yo r i 4 a I 49 Persons Escaped This Burning Airliner Smoke bilious hillow skyward sky ns n firemen control a n a fire in hs an airliner that crashed near a Chicago o airport airport air air- j jIn port lort and broke 6 into flames Fort six Forty six pa pas pas- I eIS eI'S and crew of or throe three hound bound for No i X N J 1 f. f away a from th the HIP horning burning Plane Illo cd through h a ha haystack stack aft after r cr crashing 49 Escape Flaming Death I In n Chicago Plane Crash CHICAGO Jan 4 UP UP-A UP Anon Anon- nonscheduled nonscheduled non non- scheduled C 46 an airliner liner crashed and burned when hen it fa failed led on a atal tal take off off e-off Thursday but 46 16 passengers passengers passengers pas pas- and three crew members I escaped before flames destroyed I Ithe the ship I Pilot Marvin of Maybrook Maybrook May May- i brook N. N J J. J battled the plane to toa toa toa a belly landing in two haystacks narrowly mis missing ing- ing two buildings when he could not get tet the ship more than 10 ft off oce the ground g Five persons were injured including in including in- in eluding a pregnant woman Mrs j Marjorie Ross route 3 3 Elizabethtown Elizabeth Elizabeth- town lown Pa Palio who lio suffered shock and anda a possible hip fracture I A old month baby Christine Archer slept peacefully in the arms arms' of oC its mother Mrs Ils Theresa Archer 25 Oak st st. Westville N. N J J. J until the plane ploughed into the haystacks which tore off the Another passenger John Snell of Cambridge e Mass helped mother and baby from the plane Injures Injun s Stewardess Those injured in the crash were Mrs Ross pilot co-pilot A A. J J. J Howarth 36 Miami stewardess Thelma Dennis 22 22 Miami and passenger Clarence Hyde Marlton Marlton Marlton Marl- Marl ton N N. H H. H Howarth and Hyde were released from Holy Cross hospital following treatment for cuts and bruises but the twp t women were held The plane was owned by Monarch Monarch Monarch Mon Mon- arch Airlines of which is general manager and chief pilot j i iThe The crash occurred a about b o 0 u t 2 30 2 30 am arm I I said the carburetors carburetors carburetors' in the left engine of the twin twin- twin twin-I I b plane apparently y froze u up p causing the ship to lose power Praises Praie Pilot He said he didn't have ha time to turn on heat to ice de-ice them before the ship headed toward earth Witnesses praised his handling of the ship The next thin thing I knew we landed in two h haystacks he said in a sworn statement to tu civil aeronautics administration said the plane swerved back and forth foith on the runway as asif asif asif if I r were caught in a gust of or wind hind He called for full throttle and the plane took off oce but didn't rise over 10 0 ft before heading heading- to toward toward toward to- to ward earth Took Off orr Normally I dont don't know exactly what happened happened hap hap- said 40 of Maybrook Maybrook May May- brook brool N N. N J J. J We Ve took off normally and cleared the thc airport fence all right But then I started to lose power The engines weren't missing missing- and th the wings were clean The I plane had been iced de-iced just before be be- be- be fore take But even en so we just kept hept losing power and altitude I r tried to swing northwest to pass back to the airport but I saw I couldn't make male it so I decided decided decided de de- de- de to bring her down as best I could I saw an open prairie and that's where I brought her down The plane began burning when the ship touched earth near the intersection of an and Menard |
