Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1956
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Section 2 Page 1
Venezuela to
Start Plane
Crash Probe
Disaster Jhat Killed
74 Out of U.S.
Jurisdiction
NEW YORK 11 VotlOTiiolan
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jovernment inspectors new north
ward today to try to find out why
a giant four-engined airliner burst
into (lames and ell into the sea
within sight of New York, carry
ig 74 persons to their deaths.
The Venezuelan Super-Constel-ation
crashed 32 miles off the
New Jersey coast early yesterday,
beyond the territorial waters of
the United States.
It was out of the jurisdiction of
the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board,
but the CAB quickly went into ac
tion, collecting what evidence it
could and standing ready to help
its Venezuelan counterpart probe
the tragedy.
Due Tonight
Officials of the airline Linea
Aeropostal Venezolana said Ven
ezuelan inspectors flying from
Caracas were due to arrive to
night. Twenty of those aboard were
Americans. Of the Venezuelans,
24 were students in this country,
ranging in age from 12 to 20, re
turning home for summer vaca
tions. Others were French, Ital
ian, Spanish.
The plane left Idlewild Airport
at 11:18 p.m. Tuesday night. Not
far from New York, one of its
engines began spinning wildly out
of control. The big ship swung
around to return to Idlewild.
On the way back, shepherded
by a Coast Guard plane, the pilot,
Capt. Luis Plata, prepared to
dump 5,000 gallons of explosive
gasoline into the ocean, routine
precaution.
The pilot's last words on the
radio were: '.'Roger, we're cleared
to drop gas . . . Roger, we have
New York in sight." j
Burst of Flame I
Suddenly a burst of flame bel
lied out under the aircraft. J
Someone in one of the airliners;
In the area shouted a warning:
"get your speed about 160 get
your speed about 160 you're on
fire."
But there was no time. Like a
falling star, the plane nosed over
and dove almost straight down,
seemed to pull up once, and then
struck the ocean.
The first boat to reach the
scene a Navy transport mes
saged back: "Found no survivors
. . . Expect to find none."
All day Coast Guard cutters
patroled the spot, picking up what
debris they found. Only a few
bodies surfaced. i
A boy's military cap, with the
autographs of three girls in the
lining ... A partly burned black
book of telephone numbers ... I
A torn picture of a Venezuelan
army officer and his wife, in
scribed affectionately to his daugh
ter, one of the victims.
A piano instruction book, with
a teacher's penciled notation:
"Keep your thumbs curved." . . .
A charred first aid kit ... A
shoe ... A packet of letters . . .
A spent flare . . .Passports...
a little girl's dress ... An over
coat containing a paperbound edi
tion of "The Dead Sea Scrolls."
That, was about all.
This was the worst plane dis
aster involving a regular airline
flight in aviation's history.
Truman Makes
Appeal for j
Better Life
OXFORD, England w-Harry S.
Truman has called for a new mag
na carta to include "economic
well-being . . . health, education
and decent living standards
among our inalienable rights."
The former U.S. president made
an appeal for a better life for
underprivileged people in a speech .
last night before 400 graduates of
Oxford's Christ Church College.
Earlier yesterday the ancient
British university conferred an
honorary doctorate of civil law
on him. !
"Every mon should have the
benefit of the best in medicine,
he continued, and every boy and
girl the highest educational train
ing from which they can profit. '
The aged, he added, should be
free of economic worries in their
declining years.
"In short, we must declare in a
new magna carta, in a new Dec
. iaration of Independence, that
henceforth economic well being
and security, that health and ed
ucation and decent living stand
ards are among our inalienable
rights," Truman declared.
The nations of the West, he said,
must extend the benefits of their
democracy and abundant ways of
life to the rest of the world. Then
in an obvious reference to the
American Negro, he added:
"In my country, to our sorrow,
there are those who are still de
nied full citizenship in some of
our states, and denied full stature
as human beings by some of our
citizens still living in an intellect
ual and moral dark age."
Fishermen Want
Air Conditioning
OKLAHOMA CITY '.fIn Okla
home even the fishermen demand
the comfort of air conditioning.
The state's Planning and Re
sources Board says anzlers have
refused to stay in the state's new
20-room fishing lod?e at Lake
Texoma because it is not air con
diSoned. A nearby million-dollar lodge,
completely air conditional, is
booked np unlid.
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