PLANE CRASHES IN CITY

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1929, Page 11

PLANE CRASHES IN CITY

PILOT KILLED INSTANTLY PASSENGER SAVED BY PARACHUTE. MACHINE DEVELOPS TAILSPIN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Nov. 20. Falling into a tailspii) at a height of 8000 feet a plane crashed in one of the busiest intersections of the city at Broadway and Sixty-fourth Street. A flying instructor, Charles Reid, who had never left the controls, was killed instantly, but his pupil, Robert Baillie, made a safe parachute jump from a height of 3000 feet and landed on a building on the opposite side of the street from the plane, which Crashed on the top of a new fourstorey structure with a terrific impact. Thousands of'people immediately gathered on the scene, causing the police to draw lines to keep back the curious. "We were up about ■ 8000 feet when the engine spluttered and went dead,” said Bailie. "We fell into a tailspin, but Reid brought it out. We went into another tailspin and I became frightened. Reid motioned to me to jump. .1 climbed out on to the wing and when: we had got to. about 3000 feet let go, believing that he would-follow me. He apparently tried to make for Central Park, but the plane refused to come out of the spin and crashed, into the building. "I was horror-stricken while floating down watching the plane carry my friend to what must be certain death.. It seemed to be a long, time after , the plane crashed before I landed.”