Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-08-06 | Page 4 | Navy Studying 10 Air Deaths

Navy Studying 1 10 0 Air Deaths HOLLYWOOD Fla Aug 6 INS Naval INS Naval authorities pressed an investigation Friday into the midair crash of ot a navy twin twin-en- gine jine transport and a training raining plane that sent 10 navy men to a flaming death near Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood Fla late Thursday The bodies were badly mangled mangled- and burned when the DC 3 type transport known technically as a navy D R plunged to the ground and burst into flames after colliding colliding col col- tiding with the two-seater two converted converted con con- army PT 17 State patrolmen originally re reported reported reported re- re ported the removal of 11 bodies from the wreckage but the navy said only 10 30 persons were aboard One was a coast guardsman The two occupants of the trainer Tommy roe Joe oe 25 flying in instructor instructor in in- and John Hack Hackett tt his year old student who was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported to have been piloting the craft parachuted and landed unhurt un un- un- un hurt Poe and Hackett said they failed to see the big transport until just seconds before the crash which occurred at an altitude altitude altitude alti alti- tude of ot about feet