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Show CAB Probing Air Disaster DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 10 (UP) Civil aeronautic board experts Wednesday bef ail investigating th crash of a DC-S American air liner- ta which' M persons war killed st Uv field hare. " tli puna, as rout front Maw York to Mexico City, eraahed and burned early Tueeday as' It cam In for a landing with, twa engines adV''.' -z : - Eighten""or th M persons aboard escaped alive, but th other M were trapped by a sweeping mas W flam. Six af th bodies still wer unidentified. Robert W. Crisp, chief af th CAB hearing; division, was on routs to taM personal cnargs of th investigation. He was accompanied accom-panied by WUliam K. Andrew, dinetor of th CAS bureau safety Investigation. Among thee who lived wer Capt. Lauren (Tommy) Claud and twa fallow crewmen. But the hostesses, Margaret Vaa Bibber, 34, of Madiaoa, N. X, and Jooc-' Jooc-' phi no Cadena of Ban Antonlt, died with th 1 passenger. Claud, 81, of Fort Worth, said he had feathered th outside left Eipelle when th engine went d over Altheimer, Ark., and brought the big plan on, (15 mile, t Dallas with three engine. A he started to land, th pilot said, th outside right engine also went dead. The left wing dropped aad there was not enough power t gala altitude. Claud called out, "She's s tones," Then th plan ripped into two hangar and another building, setting set-ting off fir that destroyed them. "After that," Said Claude, "I have no clear recollection of anything any-thing that happened, except I dived through the forward baggage hatch, through the fir, and start-1 d crawling away.1 I |