AIRLINER CRASHES
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED
NEW YORK, April 7.
Eleven persons were tilled today when a transcontinental airliner, after leaving Newark airport, crashed near Uniontown (Pennsylvania): Bad weather, which caused ice formation on the wings, and radio trouble, are be-, lieved to have been responsible for the crash.
A check of the casualties revealed that the wife of the Mayor of Newark, Mrs. Ellenstein, was one of the two survivors, although she was seriously injured. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 11
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