FOURTEEN PASSENGERS DIE IN ’PLANE CRASH

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6863, 19 March 1929, Page 6

FOURTEEN PASSENGERS DIE IN ’PLANE CRASH

Only Two Survivors HUGE METAL MACHINE STRIKES FREIGHT CAB GREATEST TRAGEDY TO DATE 13 U.S. AIR HISTORY. United Service. Received Monday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, March 17. At Newark (New Jersey) 1- persona were killed on Sunday, when a metal ’•plane crashed near here. When the plane crashed against a freight car, the engines failed apd the pilot was compelled to make a forced landing, from which only two escaped. Ono was Lou Foote, a former ace of the Ford flying fleet, who piloted tho previous flight of the plane, which had been named “Miss Newark” by Mrs. Galvin Coolidge. The second survivor was Belmont Parsons, of Brooklyn. Both escaped death because they were seated in the twin pilot’s seat, four feet above the cabin, which was sheard from the wings above the cabin in a tangled mass of steel and human bodies torn limb from limb. Both wero injured but it is believed they will recover. The crash followed immediately on the take off. The passengers paid £1 each for the trip. Three massive 220 horse power Wright whirlwind motors were hurled 50 feet. The tragedy As the greatest in the history of heavier than air craft in the United States