FATAL CRASH.

Wairarapa Age, 19 March 1929, Page 5

FATAL CRASH.

FOURTEEN PERSONS KILLED IN NEW JERSEY FALL OF METAL ’PLANE United Press AssoclaTion.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received. Monday, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 17. At Newark (New Jersey) fourteen persons were killed on Sunday when a metal ’plane crashed near there.— (Australian Press Association.) FORCED LANDING WORST TRAGEDY OF ITS KIND IN UNITED STATES (Received Monday, 9.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 18. The ’plane crashed against a freight car. The engines failed, and the pilot was compelled to make a. forced landing, from which only two escaped. One of these was Lou Foote, a former ace of the Ford fiyinff fleet, who piloted the previous flight of the ’plane, which had been named “Miss Newark’’ by Mrs Calvin Coolidge. The second survivor was Belmont Parsons, of Brooklyn. Both escaped death because they were seated in the twin pilot’s seat, 4 feet above the cabin, which was sheared from the wings above. The cabin was in a tangled mass of steel Human bodies, torn limb from. limb. Both survivors were injured, but it is. believed that they will recover. The crash followed the take off. The passengers paid a pound each, for the trip. Three massive 220 horse power Wright Whirlwind: motgg; were hurled fifty feet. Tihe tragedy is the greatest in' the history of heav ier than air craft machines in the United States.—(Australian Press Association.)