Evening star., 1928-10-19
TAIL SPIN DEATH
LAID TO PASSENGER
Pilot Claims Excited Rider
"Froze" ControIs-Eight
Occupants Injured.
- the Associated Press.


ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. october 1s
A frightened passenger who grippeo
the controls of an airplane In which
prominent bankers were making sight
seeing trip over Atlantic City was be-
lieved responsible today for the crash
of the plane and the death Of one of
the occupants and the serious injury
of the others. Eight men we're in the
plane.
w. Octave Chanute, Denver invest
nent banker, died in the Atlantic City
Hospital two hours after the accident.
Mr.. Chanute and four of the other
passengers we're delegates to the annual
invention of the Investment Bankers
Association here.
Pliny Jewel of Boston and former
PRESIDENT of the association; condition
ritical
Thomas Dysart of ST. LCiis, also
/. former president of the association:
ondition critical.
Henry L. Duer of w. w. Lanahan
Co., Baltimore. shock and minor
INJURIES; Alden H. Little of Chi
cago. executive vice president of the
.ssociation, cuts and bruises; Ralph Som
srs of Absecon, N j., internal injuries
nd shock; George King of Garden City,
-ong Island pilot, possible fracture of
ne leg and snock; Ferdinand Eble of
leasantville, N. j., relief pilot; possible
'acture of leg and shock.
Sister Ship Of Bremen.
The plane, sister ship of the trans
lantic Junkers plane Bremen, was re-
urning 10 the field after q flight over
ne ciJ.. Watchers on the ground saw
go into tailspin when approximate
Y 2,0o0 feet in the air, right itself, go
nto another spin and crash to the
round. The charge that some one had
frozen" to the controls was made by
ne pilot.
While being carried unconscious to
he hospital he cried out, Get away
fcm those controls" and later, after
gaining consciousness, said that some
ne had climbed into the other cockpit
iammed the foot control and froze the
udder''
Attendants at the hospital said that
IT. Jewel in his delirium also MUIR
.ured, "Oh, leave 60 of those controls +"
All the passengers were in the cabin
the take-off. witnesses said, but after
lie crash one of them, not yet identi-
ed, was taken from the second cock
t.
The plane fell into telephone and
,lesraph lines before burying its nose
marsh, and the soft condition Of
= ground is believed to have saved the
es of the other passengers.
Kescuers Wade to Scene.
A freight engine and coal car we're
irlniandeered to take the wounded to
street where they could be put into
mbulances. Policemen and other res
uers had to wade in water to tfeir
aists to reach the wreckage Of the
Lane.
Mrs. Chsnute and her daughter saw
he plane fall.
Mr.. Chanute and Mr.. Dysart were
10Th close friends Of Col. Charles A.
.,indbsfah, Mr.. Dysart being one Of
he backers of his transatlantic flight.
Mr. Chanute is the grandson of the
ate w. Octave Chanute, 1st, of Chi
ago. Who was known As 'the father of
Walton" Chanute Field at Rantoul,
L., is named after the elder Cf1anute.
Sonaers. who Is World War flyer and
,oSsessor Of the Croix de Guerre, won
or Bringing down German plane
happened to be &C the field and was
AIKEN along because there was one more
place in the plane.
King new the plane here yesterday,
bringing Harry H. Knight, another Of
Col. Lindbefghs hackers, and party
the convention. Among them was
;. F. M4honey of San Diego, Calf,
,uilder Of the Spirit of st. Louis.
Mr.. Mahoney said Kings explanation
hat some one had frozen" to the con-
'ols seemed entirely plausible.