Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-04
AirIiner With 10
Disappears After
Storm Bars Landing
Radio Contact Broken
As Plane Circles Near
SoIt Lake City Airport
BULLETIN.

today on the ground in the noun
tain country north of Centerville,
Utah. Searching flyers radioed
the plane did not appear to be in
bad condition, the pilot. Capt.
Howard Fey, seemingly having at
tempted a forced landing.
william Haws, flyer who
spotted" the grounded plane.
said low-hanging clouds obscured
his vision. He was unable to de-
termine whether any of the seven
passengers or crew Of three had
survived the crackup. He said
the plane was in canyon on the
south side Of 7,00o-foot peak.
By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. An
airliner carrying seven passengers
and crew of three vanished today
after arriving over the Salt Lake
airport at 4:40 am. Mountain
Standard time).
The United Airlines plane left San
Francisco at 1890 pm. Mountain
Standard time) last night and was
due in Salt Lake City at 3:39 am.
The big plane approached the air.
port at 4:40 a m. but was unable to
land because of a heavy snowstorm.
Capt. Howard Fey reported he was
following the radio beam as he ap-
preached the field.
Circles High Overhead.
Field headquarters here talked
with the crew and the plane ap-
parently began circling high over
head to await a break in the
weather.
Later efforts to contact the plane
by radio failed.
Stanley Halberg. district traffic
manager for U. A. L., said the plane
carried enough gasoline to keep 1t
aloft at least until 9 am.
He expressed the hope the plane
had made an emergency landing
somewhere on the plains west of
Utah's capital.
East of the city the Wasatch
mountains tower to $4,000 feet. They
were shrouded by steady snow.
The searching plane scared along
the Wasatch range north of Salt
Lake City and in the vicinity of
Layton, about rs miles north of
here. 1t was from that area Capt.
Fey sent his 4:40 a m. message.
May Have Crashed.
The plane approached Salt Lake
City, then few north, circled and
headed back toward the airport
Mr.. Halberg explained this ma
neuver was necessary because of
wind conditions.
Officials, although still hopeful,
said it was possible that the craft
crashed in the mountains east of
Layton while it was turning prepa-
ratory to winging back toward Salt
Lake City.
Nearly a foot of snow lay in the
mountains. The storm continued
intermittently this morning.
United Airlines' log listed these
passengers:
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Muir, Detroit.
Joe Caffero, Oakland, Calf.
Elland A. Dybdal, Fergus Falls,
MINI.
DR.. G. L. Stevenson, Sacramento
Calf.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Wilson, haywood,
Ill.
Mr.. Muir is connected with the
Briggs Manufacturing Co. Of De-
troit. He and his wife boarded the
plane at San Francisco. They were
returning to Detroit.
Mr.. Cafiero was en- route to Chi
cago.
Dybdal Had Visited Sons.
Mr.. DybdaI, an inspector for the
Minnesota Railroad and warehouse
Commission, was enroute home after
visit to Pittsburg, Calf, where
two sons reside and where a third,
Victor, a naval ensign, had also gone
to attend a reunion.
DR.. Stevenson was en- route to Salt
Lake City.
Mr.. Wilson, an employe Of the
United Airlines, and his wife were
returning home after q West Coast
visit.
The plane made its regular stops
at Reno and Elko, New, as well as
at Sacramento.
Crew members, In addition to
Capt. Fey, were First Omcer
Thomas Sandegren Of Alameda and
Stewardess Evelyn SANDING. Oak
land.