FOUR PILOTS PERISH
CRASH IN SNOWSTORM NEW YORK, Mar. 20 Pilots of four United States Army aeroplanes perished as their machines crashed and burned in a blinding snowstorm on farms east of Lima, in Ohio The Army air base at Wayne County Airport in Detroit reported that the aircraft left there on a mission for the Air Corps Ferry Command. The pilots killed were all second-lieu-tenants. The machines fell within a half-mile radius, three of them in open fields and one in a woods. All burst into flames. Two crashed 100 yards apart on the farm of 1. H. Lutas. "There was a flash so bright it seemed to darken the electric lights in my bouse," said Mr. Lutz. Rescuers said there was evidence that at least one of the pilots attempted to use his parachute but struck the ground before he could bale out. One of the planes crashed 50 yards from the home of Byron Heffner, a farmer. "There were two explosions and the house shook like in an earthquake," said Mrs. Ralph Binkley, an occupant of the house. She reported hearing the roar of a motor and the crash a few moments before the blasts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24275, 16 May 1942, Page 4
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