Show PARACHUTE IS USELESS WHEN BOMBER DIVES I Four Dead and One Dying In Ohio Airplane Crash DAYTON DAYTON Ohio Opril Four 21 21 men were almost Instantly and one other probably fatally In- In InJured injured In Injured this afternoon when a Mar Mar- Martin Martin tin tm air all service bombing plane piano nose noso ld dl Into the Gnat Miami riser here The dead Captain W R It Lawson pilot Langley Field Va Technical Sergeant Bidwell Langley Langey eld 1 Va Sergeant Wesley Rowland Self Self- e Field Mich Civilian Ur U M Smith bureau of standards Washington D C C In- In inured In Injured JU red Technical Sergeant R It B Shaw e Field Michigan J I n l U E I SKULLS SKUrU All AU five lve men suffered fracture skulls The occurred II pa pathe the men were ere taking tailing oft off till tor Lane Lans- Lan Laney ey Icy Field after having haing bein ben her weeks The big left lett the ground heading heding south Jut ut lug O to a hea heavy wind salol It was evident that thai the j realized that he could not clear th Herman flerman avenue venue bridge just j south of McCook cCook Field and sought to turn his plane to avoid crashing into It The Tho strong wind caught taught the ma- ma machine machine ma machine chine and t twisted trUsted 1st cd It Into a 0 nose nosedive dive which ended In the river All AU the tho men in the plane had parachutes on their backs but hut er unable to use them on account of othe the of the fall the plane being only a short distance from the ground at the time it dive dived l The crew was plunged into the water most of them out of ot the ship ss as the bodies were seen to come to the surface one ono by one Brigadier General William Mitch Mitch- Mitchell Mitch ell ell eli assistant chief of ot the air set ser serVIce ser service vice and Major L J W commandant at McCook FIeld were the first air all service officers to o reach the scene IS 11 General Mitchell was as aa at first re- re reported reported re reported ported in the plane but it wn was loL- loL la later ter learned that he was lunching In a restaurant opposite McCool McCooK General Mitchell Immediately ap- ap appointed appointed ap appointed 1 pointed a board of ot Investigation to toI determine It the men were In the theall theair theair all air In the line Ime of duty and what If I any there thero may have be been n In the plane piane Shortly after the accident Gen I GenI Mitchell took off oft for tor Boiling Washington D C As h he passed 0 over oser er the scene of the disaster he dropped flo floes eos Into the 11 riser er lie He will wI make a re- re report report re report port of ot the crash on his arrival I 1 Washington |