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Waiting for Plane Crash By EDWIN B. GREENWALD Of The Associated Press Istanbul, Turkey. June 21 (AP) Miss Jane Bray, blond hostess on the ill-fated clipper Eclipse, told today how the 36 persons aboard waited in terror amid the roar of flames for the inevitable crash which was to kill of their number. Under the bright stars of a serene Syrian sky, the Constellation. her port wing afire, hurtled toward the desert with a mighty screech, landed on her belly, ground-looped to the left and split in two. The Pan American Airways craft was enveloped in flames. The 28-year-old Memphis, Tenn girl, who ignored her own broken foot and worked over the survivors until she collapsed, told this story: SHE WENT TO SLEEP knowing that one motor was feathered but she was unworried about it. A short time later she was awakened by flames whipping past the port windows. She saw the purser. Anthony Volpe, and the third officer, Eugene W. Roddenberry, standing in the aisle. "I •knew then it was bad. They came to me and said *Get your belt fastened tight.' "I started to get up and they said harshly, 'Get your belt on!" "Then all of us called to the passengers to get their belts on. They did. There was not a sign of panic. "Nimbalkar Rajkumar, the Indian prince. got up and went over to his mother, the Rani. (Both were among the survivors.) Everybody else sat still and we just waited each thinking his own thoughts. "I LOOKED OUT. The number Hostess Describes Fire Over Desert in Syria two motor was all afire andit seemed to have spread to the wing. I wondered why they didn't drop that motor. I looked up and even through the fire I could see bright stars. But everything else was black as pitch. Suddenly there was a hard jar, just like when a tooth is pulled and you feel it crunch. The burning motor had fallen loose. *'The wing kept burning and we were coming down and it seemed we were circling. We waited... waited.... waited. "We hit hard on the belly with an awful jar which would not stop. We slid across the sand. The plane had swung hard around to the left and split in two, pretty well forward. Flames poured in the the heat became terrific. "WE WHO COULD jumped out. The other survivors were handed down and we dragged them away and tried to do what we could for them. We had to carry the Rani away. She had a head injury and had lost some teeth and was in a rather bad way, but we finally quieted her. All we • could do then was watch while the plane burned. slowly : at first and then fiercely. It must have burned for hours. but I do not remember too well. There wasn't; any sound but those flames. Everybody who died must have been killed outright." survivor. Dr. Rafiden Ahmed of Calcutta. India, said in Beirut, Lebanon. that when the pilot made the crash, landing, "both sides of the plane blew off. and that explains how some passengers were saved."
Article from 21 Jun 1947The Decatur Daily Review(Decatur, IL)
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