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Show CLOSEO? OP 'SKY QLSE?r DOWN ON THE ATLANTIC ! - " fx - r it x rr- t if ? "s . " THIS VIEW OF THE STRICKEN FLYING BOAT, BERMUDA SKY QUEEN was taken as rescue operations by the Coast Guard cutter Bibb were under way. All ot the airliner's 69 passengers and crew members were safely removed to the rescue ship. A passenger on the ditched craft stands at the open door awaiting his turn to be transferred to the cutter. During preliminaries to dramatic Atlantic Ocean rescue, plane's bow was damaged in collision with the Bibb. At upper window is pilot of the flying boat, Charles Martin. This photo was made from t life raft by one of the ill-fated plane's sixty-nine survivors. (International Soundphoto) |