The New York herald., 1921-07-08
ARPLANE KILLS boy
OF 7 in ENDING TRIP
DaZed Child Runs Into Pro-
peller, Which Cuts His
Head Into Halves.
N. Y. PILOT ARRESTED
Technical Charge of Man.
slaughter Made Against
Airman in Jersey.
COULDN'T STOP MACHINE
Two Other Air Accidents Oc-
cur in Metropolitan Dis
trict-Three Hurt.
COULDN'T STOP MACHINE

Three airolane eccidents occurred in
the vicinity of New York yesterday.
One caused the death of a seven-year-
old boy, whose head was cut into halves
by the whirling propeller of one of
the machines. In another accident AN
aviator received a slight cut on his
right arm and two of his passengers
were severely shaken. The boy. Felix
Suszczynski, was killed at the Gutten-
berg racetrack at North Bergen, N. j.,
when, apparently, he became confused
and ran into the machine as it was
landing.
James s. Kelly of New York city.
the pilot of the machine. and David j.
King. another pilot, both formerly OF
the Air Service. were ending a fight
from Connecticut when the. accident oc-
Cured. Felix and other boys were
playing in the big field when the ma
chine swooped down. Instead of staying
together or moving in body the boys
Felix in his confusion dashed straight
into the plane as it was coasting along
the ground. The heavy propeller then
cut the childs head. The machine
bounced along a few yards further and
came to q stop.
Kelly was arrested on a technical
charge of mapslaughter and King was
held as a material witness. There Is
no way for pilot TO stop a plane once
it is on the ground. The momentum of
the propeller swings 1t around after the
motor is cut off. In the absence of bet
ter landing fields many planes use the
Gutenberg track.
Coroner Charles Dank took charge of
the body of the boy. who lived on
Twenty-third street. West New York,
N. J.
Lieut. David r. Stinson, an army pilot,
was compelled to make forced landing
in a lettuce field on Cummings Farm,
Flatbush. yesterday iAornlng when his
motor stopped. Stinson. who was flying
at 1,500 feet, bound from Mitchell Field.
Mineola, to Camp Vail. Little Silver,
n. J.. picked out the lettuce field as
the most likely landing place as his
engine coughed and quit.
He glided down and set his wheels
safely on the earth. but the soil was
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stopped abruptly. but Stinson continued
onward. He picked himself UP. brushed
the dirt off his uniform dnd started
out to hunt UP telephone to notify the
field. When the police and an ambu-
lance from the Kings County Hospital
arrived he refused medical aid and went
on phoning. The machine. Which nOscl
over, was slightly damaged.
Mechanical trouble made necessary a
rapid descent of an airplane into the
marches back of. Coney Island near the
creek yesterday. The machine, an Avro
biplane, owned by the Parkway Aviation
Corporation of Ocean Parkway at Ave-
nue. w, was piloted by James Davis. In
it were two passengers, Christopher
Freucht of 1704 Avenue y. Brooklyn
and Robert Maxwell whose address is
not known.
Davis took off safely but was 1T a
height of only twenty-five feet when he
noticed that all was not right with the
elevator control wires. He landed
straight ahead into the marshes. Daviss
right arm was cut and the passengers
got a jolting up when the machine
stuck into the mud, slightly damaging
one wing.