Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-10-05 | Page 4 | 23 Fliers Safe in Air Crash

i 23 Fliers Safe In Air Crash MIAMI Oct 5 INS The INS The 23 persons aboard a DC 3 charter airliner which skidded into an emergency landing on a a lonely onely Bahaman beach were safe ste Tuesday after virtually being given up for or Jos lost The 19 rescued Puerto Ricans and four crew members of the ship were flown to Miami Monday night from Great Harbor cay by two coast guard amphibious planes Another coast guard ship had spotted the airliner and its occupants occupants oc oc- oc- oc on the beach miles east cast of Miami in just as the large aerial armada o of service and private craft were about to give up hope of oC ever finding finding finding find find- I ing them alive Richard Olivere of oC Port Chester NY Y pilot and owner of the twin- twin transport brought the plane ilane down in a perfect wheels wheels- up landing in pitch blackness after running out of oC gas has The ship was wasen wasen wasen en route from Teterboro N. N J. J to San Juan tuan Puerto Rico Olivere Olivere- said he had intended to refuel at Miami but that wind drift had forced him off ocr his course