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Plane Crash Dead Piled Against Tail SectionIt- M.Bodies of some of the IT killed in crash o£ a chartered DC-3 near Savannah, Ga., lie piled by the/ail section—only part of the plane not smashedto pieces. The dead were Puerto .Ricans on a Ncwark-to-Midland flight, en route home.iNEA Telephoto)17 Dead In Savannah,Ga. Plane CrashBy PERRY \V. MULLENSAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 8,—lt;/P)— The Atlantic's restless tides today seeped under the crumpled wreckage of a New York to Miami charter plane in which 17 persons, perhaps 18, died and nine were injured.The big converted army C-47, loaded mostly with homeward bound Puerto, , Ricans, arrived over ihc Savanna}! River marshlands eight miles southeast of here yesterday morning, its twin engines firing rag* gedly.Lazily the plane circled, abruptly went into a headlong dive, crashed and exploded.The crew aboard a U. S. army engineer boat, working in the river, went to the rescue immediately, but' even so it was nearly throe hours before they could bring out the injured over a tortuous mile of mud, water and grass which intervened.Shortly afterwards the U. S, CoasL Guard cutter Aurora arrived abreast of the still smoking plane and began the grim task of slogging through ^the morass with the dead.The engineers’ boat, the Doboy meanwhile chugged downstream with the injured, one of whom, 10-year-old Isabelle Maldonado; died. As the Doboy lied up at Savannah, Roman Catholic priests administered tl)c last sacraments,At last reports none of the surviving injured was in critical condition. They were taken to the Marine Hospital here.Because of a discrepancy in the plane’s manifest list rescue workers planned to retrace their steps , through the muck today in search of another body.j The plane’s manifest in New York showed that 25 persons including an j infant boarded the plane there, and jlwo men came aboard in Philadelphia. So far only 26 have been ae-j counted for among the dead and in-jjured and no trace of an infant has ibeen found.
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jan 08, 1948
Page 11
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Erik S.
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