Plane Crashes
Round The World
Take Many Lives
(By The Associated Press)
The two worst disasters in the
nation’s commercial aviation his
tory killed 93 persons within 24
hours and seven other plane
crashes around the globe—in Jap
an, Iceland, the Netherlands, Alas
ka and Argeninta—boosted the to
tal number of dead to at least 174.
Three persons were missing and
31 suffered injuries in the nine
plane mishaps.
The most disastrous of the
crashes occurred Friday—Memo
rial Day—near Port Deposit, Md.,
when an Eastern Air Lines DC-4
transport cracked up, killing all
53 persons aboard—49 passengers
and four crew members.
Less than 24 hours before the
Memorial Day crash in Maryland,
40 persons lost their lives when
another DC-4, a United Airlines
transport, crash-landed at New
York’s La Guardia field.
In other plane mishaps around
the world on Thursday:
Forty were killed in Japan; 25
in Iceland; 12 in the Netherlands
and three were missing in Alaska.
Four persons were killed and
another seriously injured in three
plane crashes in Argentina since
Thursday.
The seires of plane crackups in
the past two days increased to 480
the total number of personss killed
in the world since since Jan. 1 in
16 major commercial and military
crackups.
Friday’s crash at Port Deposit
took almost as severe a toll as the
crash of a Colombian Avianca air
lines plane near Bogota, Colom
bia, last Feb. 14, when 54 persons
lost their lives .
The bodies of 25 persons were
found by searchers in the wreck
age of an Icelandic Airways DC-3
plane which smashed up on a
rocky mountainside Thursday.
There were 10 women and four
children among the passengers, all
Icelanders and Norwegians.
The crackup of a C-54 army
courier plane southwest of Tokyo
cost the lives of 28 enlisted men,
eight officers and four civilians.
The bodies of all were reported
burned beyond recognition.
Three members of a crew of a
B-?9 which crashed shortly after
a takeoff at Fairbanks, Alaska,
still were reported missing Satur
day. Nine other crew members
who survived suffered injuries.
Twelve persons were killed at
Tillburg, the Netherlands, in a
collision of two planes.
Four civilians suffered severe
burns at Lichfield, England, Fri
day when a Royal Air Force Lib
erator bomber parked on an air
port runway blew up. The plane
was destroyed by the explosion,
the cause of which was not deter
mined.
Three of 12 crewman were
killed when a B-29 superfortress
of the 146th reconnaissance squad
ron crashed and burned near Fair
banks Thursday, headquarters of
the army air forces announced.
Previously the trio had been
listed as missing. The other nine
men aboard the big four-engined
bomber escaped serious injury.
An army investigating board
has not disclosed any of its find
ings on the possible cause of the
crash.
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