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Show I Five Died When Hurtling Fuselage Hit Ground sill us i sun -- -- - - - - JVRECKAGEJr NAVY PLANE JN WHICHFIVEDIED Debris of huge amphibian after midair crash with pursuit ship over Seattle , airfield Naval Board Summoned To Probe Plane Collision SEATTLE. Nov. 4 (AP) A naval court of inquiry was summoned sum-moned today to investigate the crash of two navy planes in midair that killed five fliers here yesterday. ' The victims were killed as tneir big naval bomber of squadron VP-It VP-It plunged 3900 feet to ths ground. Ins two occupsnts of ths other ship, an observation plans, parachuted para-chuted to safsty. Commander Arthur W. Redford of Sand Point naval air bass, Llsu-tenant Llsu-tenant Commander Louis Ivsrson snd Lisutsnant J. E. Beck compose the court of inquiry. The two planes were simulating battls maneuvers when they spotted an open specs in the clouds abova Boeing field. Wttnessss said the bombsr was going about SO miles an hour whils ths observation plane darted above and below It The crew of the bomber, a twin-motored twin-motored seaplane of Ihs PM-4 type, biased away at tha observation plans with camera guns, a machlns gun arrangement that photographs as tha trigger Is pressed and ahows afterward ths accuracy of the gunners. gun-ners. Witnssses said both planes then attempted to power dive out of th. other's course and crashed Into each other. The two survivors. Chief Machinist's Mate J. D. Good-sell, Good-sell, Seattle, and H. S. Bowman, IB, Alexandria, La, navy messen-gsr messen-gsr aspiring to be a flier, were unable to explain how the planes happened to lock wings snd fall. Tk. knmhAP mi AA IfiaidS ths hurtling fuselage when It hit the ground. Parachutes strapped to tha bomber occupants' backs wers used as shrouds to cover them before their bodies wers boms from the field. The victims were: Lieutenant Henry B. Twohy. 0, Spokane, Wash., pilot; Aviation Cadet Kenneth H. Rhuddy, 2. former for-mer track team captain at the University Uni-versity of Washington: Aviation Cadet Kenneth F. Schmidt, 2S. Sprint-field. Minn.; Aviation Machinist's Ma-chinist's Mate Matthew McCrod-dan. McCrod-dan. It, and Radioman Russell X. Reagan, St. Grand Rapids, Mich. |