PLUNGE INTO BAY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16623, 16 April 1928, Page 8

PLUNGE INTO BAY

PLANE, WITH 19 PASSENGERS. MIAMI (Fla.), February 16. A Cuba-American air line seaplane, carrying 19 persons, plunged into BisI cayne Bay, two miles from shore, late to-day, seriously injuring Ray Jackson," 58, of Miami. "Members of the crew, a, Government.inspector, and 12 other passengers suffered only minor bruises and shock when the plane fell to the water from an altitude of 200 ft. .The crash came when one of the plane's two motors stopped without warning while the machine was tilted into a turn and the power of the second motor was not sufficient to straighten the, craft out in the air. C. A. Bowe, pilot, levelled the machine just before it struck the water, but the force of the impact ripped the bottom out of the cabin and cockpit. The plane sank. Jackson's right hand was severed when he attempted to save himself by grasping the still revolving propeller, of the second motor. Some of the plane's passengers, among whom were five women, were thrown into the water through the bottom, and others crawled out the cabin door. The pilot and mechanics climbed to safety from'the cockpit, A. B. Chalk, piloting a plane of the Causeway Airways, saw the crash from the air arid landed his plane near the ship dock and enlisted, the aid of a, speed boat, which proceeded to the scene of the accident and picked up the passengers' and crew of the wrecked plane.