Mental Patient Steals Plane , Flies Into Blue
NEW YORK, Wed. (1 p.m.).—A 24-year-old convict, Charles Mclntosh, who has never had a flying lesson, is believed to have stolen a private two-seater plane from the airport at Springfield, Missouri, today.
Mclntosh and four fellow-convicts, all labelled as potentially dangerous mental patients, escaped from the Federal medical centre on Monday night. Three terrorised a farm family with a home-made knife and fled with guns, clothing, money and a car. No trace has been found of the other two, but officials feel certain that Mclntosh was the plane thief. He stole a plane in Indiana while absent without leave from the army
in 1942 and successfully flew it to many parts of the country before abandoning it. The plane today was being warmed up when a flying instructor arrived at the airfield. The thief in a few minutes streaked off without using the runway and flew eastward. The aircraft had enough petrol for 300 miles of flying.
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Northern Advocate, 4 December 1947, Page 5
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