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Show Craft Fab 3 Dibs Free ;iijErEplr6;' ira -'Siira . : SHANNON, Eire, Dec 28 (UP) The TWA Constellation. Star of Cairo, crashed and exploded on a mud Island in the river Fergus, three miles from Shannon airport, in an attempted forced landing which took the lives of 12 of the 23 persons aboard Saturday. The nature of the plane's difficulties, which developed after It left Orly field, Paris, were not Immediately revealed. However, pretty Vina Kay Fer guson, hostess aboard the plane, had warned passengers to fasten their safety belts and advised them that an emergency landing would be necessary. Capt Herbert Taneey, pilot of the Star of Cairo, was believed by airmen on the scene to have attempted at-tempted to bring hie big four englned plane down on the fiat fields adjoining the river Fergus. However, the attempt fell short by a scant 100 to 200 yards and the aircraft smashed Into a tiny mud flat Island and exploded with a roar which was felt at the airport air-port building at Shannon, three miles distant. The back of the plane was broken, throwing out the passengers passen-gers and crew and scattering them over a 60-yard radius. Praise Hostess The fact that passengers had fastened their safety belts and braced themselves for a rough landing in response' to the cool Instructions In-structions of MUs' Ferguson was credited with holding dowa the death toll, although aQ survivors were injured. Flames shot more than 80 feet Into the air from the ship's biasing bias-ing fuel tanks. The crash was witnessed by flight control officers at Shannon who reported that the explosion shook airport buildings.' Rescue crews started Immediately Immedi-ately for the scene but it waa two hours later before they reached it after struggling through marshes, mud flats and the small streams which criss-cross the boggy area, Dr. James O'Boyle, airport physician phy-sician and one of the first to reach the wrecked liner, said that lt was "completely disintegrated." Passengers Scattered ' "When we arrived at the scene," he said, "we found the plane cracked In two with the dead and living scattered in all directions over an area of 50 yards." Two children, a four-and-a-half-months-old baby from Newark. N. J., and a 12-year-old French student who lives in New York were amontr the aurvlvors. Thm baby escaped serious Injury. Survivors paid high tribute to Miss Ferguson, hostess, whose coolness and calm nerves were credited with saving most of those who survived. "I told the passengers to put oa their safety belts and prepare for an ordinary passenger landing." Miss Ferguson said, "when aQ of a sudden the plane appeared ta get out of control, lost height and crashed. "We got out as best we might. The portion of the plana in which I was when the ship crashed happened hap-pened to be the least nigl Most of those who died were pinned In the wreckage., Plane Borned Dr. O'Boyle mobilized the mixed rescue party of civilians and military mili-tary personnel from Shannon and. Limerick. They beat their way through the boggy fens and rounded round-ed up small flat-bottomed boats to get to the small island where the wrecked plane waa horning. . Ambulances stood by at the closest possible points while the rescue party worked toward the scene in the misty night air. "The scene at the crash was horrible." O'Boyle said, "the plane See Page 2, Column 4 STATUTE MlltS I Af3n Londonderry Atlantic Octan fetCT X fife, Sligo SS P EIRE 2 Irnh - . if Dublin ZlF Woxfordf ZP . Cobh Map locates spot where a Trans World Airlines four-engine Constellation Constel-lation crashed In a bog near Rlneanna, Eire, Saturday morning while en route to N. Y. from Paris. Cause was not known. (AF wlrephoto.) PLANE CRASH Continued from Page One was almost completely burned out and it was evident that the explosion ex-plosion whiah followed the crash was terrific. The plane struck the ground with such Impact that it broke its back before the fire started.. "We got the survivors out as well as wo could from the smouldering smoul-dering wreckage, but moat of them were burned very badly." Casualty List of Ptrsons On Board Air Llntr SHANNON, Eire, Dec 28 (UP) Casualties In the Star of Cairo crash aa reported by Shannon airport air-port and Limerick hospital: Dead passengers; Alan Charles Lanyon, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C American economist. Clementine Jeanne Pugh, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, American housewife. Alexander H. Pekelis, Larch-mont Larch-mont N. Y., American professor. Maurice Simon Pi card. Flushing, Flush-ing, N. Y, French exporter. Luolenne Simone Clare, Paris, French editor. Francis J. Salabert, Paris, French editor. , Herman N. KoegeL New York, Polish merchant Marie N. Zelaznagora, New York, French secretary. Pierre N. Dreyfus, New York, French industrialist Dead crew members t Navigator Robert Oaterburg, Alexandria. Vs. Flight Engineer Walter Mc-Brlde, Mc-Brlde, Alexandria, Va. Radio Officer Herbert Burmela-ter, Burmela-ter, Washington, D. C Injured paaeengeras Charles Bruce Waterbury, 4tf montha, Newark, N. J. Mrs. Edith Augustine Delaby Waterbury, aame addreas. Dr. David N. Tannenbaum, New York, director of P alas Una economic eco-nomic bureau. Jean Claude Zelaxnagora, 12, New York. Injured crew members: Pilot Capt Herbert Tansey, Falls Churcli, Va. FirsJ Officer Copilot Clifford Sparrow, Washington, D. ' C Flight Service Officer Joseph Logan, Atlantic City, N. J. Hoateas Vina Kay Ferguson, Jackson Heights. N. Y. Radio Officer Dudley Hill, Alexandria, Alex-andria, "Va. Flight Superintendent William Teele, originally of Santa Monica, Cal now real dent In Paris. Gunther Lubazynakl, Paris. |
