The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-27
Congressman Byron
 Dies In Plane Crash
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(COuCluueO about the fate of Hansell. He was first reported taken from the wreck age alive but there was no record of him at the hospitals.
 The big Douglas sleeper plane was to have landed at the Atlanta air. port at 12:55 p. m. (EST) but after making & preliminary radio contact from north of the city, nothing more was heard from the ship.
 Then, early today, reports of a crash came from Jonesboro, about Is miles south of the airport. Search ing parties went out and at dawn the wreckage of the plane was found in a clump of woods, four miles north of Jonesboro.
 The plane was smashed. The wreckage was scattered for 300 yards and one wing section was draped around tree, high above ground. Dead and injured had been thrown from the fuselage which was ripped open at the bottom.
 Some of the victims were pinned in the rear portion of the plane and it required nearly an hour to extricate them.
 Despite the lists of injured given out by hospitals. L. J. Bishop, East- ern Airnnes ofilcial reported from the scene of the wreck-15 miles south of Atlanta--that 10 persons, including the crew of three had been killed.
 Injured And Dead
 The injured, according to hospi- tai officials:
 Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker.
 H. A. Iittledale, Short Hills, N. j. s P. L.. Brady, New York City.
 R. B. Sewell, Atlanta.
 J. s. Resented, ST., New O. leans.
 c. M. Happen, New York, suffer- ing shock and exposure.
 Mrs. H. E. Littledale, shock.
 George Feinberg, New York City.
 Rickenbacker and the five others taken to Piedmont hospital still were being examined at 10 8. m, EST and their conditions had not been de- termined RickeIlbacker, attendants said, appeared to have been in- jured most seriously"
 The other eight aboard the plane were:
 The crew:
 Capt. G. E. Perry, pilot.
 L. E. Thomas, co-pilot.
 Clarence Moore, steward.
 passengers:
 Rep. William D. Byron, D., Md.
 c. M. Vanderhopp, Scarsdale, N. Y.
 Juan Maria of San Salvador.
 A. Leibowitz of Atlanta.
 N. Hansell, of New York City.
 Differ on Crash Time.
 There were conflicting reports as to when the airltner crashed. Sev- eral persons in the vicinity of the crash reported hearing plane fly ing low about midnight and then g. terrific noise a few minutes later.
 "It sounded like two freight trains running together" Jim Hunt, a farmer, said.
 The plane clipped the tops of pine trees on the top of a hill and then crashed through the woods on gentle slope for 400 yards be- fore it stopped-a mass of twisted wreckage.
 'It was hot in the plane and I woke up and asked the steward for little more ventilation" Rosen- field said later.
 "The next thing I knew the ship was losing altitude and the lights went out. When l came to was lying in the open against pine tree"
 Rosenfeld was able to help some of the passengers from the wreck age and then went for aid.
 The plane, the Mexico Silver Sleeper" left LaGuardia field, New York, at 7:15 last night. It stopped in Washington and after landing here, was to have continued to New Orleans and Texas.
 Carmichael funeral home at East Point, an Atlanta suburb, reported they had received the bodies of Capt. Perry. Steward Clarence Moore and of an unidentified man.
 EuSChA8C Ou 4b0 0huC The fuselage was turned on its side with the indercarriage partially ripped of and sticking in the air, indicating the pilot may have low cred his landing gear for a forced landing. k-s
 The injured and dead had been thrown from the ripped portion of the fuselage.
 There were no signs of life in the rear of the plane, where the remain ing five persons presumably were trapped.
 Rosenfield who was less seriously injured than the others. said he was awake at the time of the crash. He said "the plane began to drop and the lights went out. The next thing knew was on the ground"
 Rosenfield said the crash occurred about 1880 am. EST.
 He was thrown to the ground from the crashing plane. he said.
 ' was still on my feet SO set out for help. went % yards and fell Into a ravlne. didn't get out until daylight. I finally went to q house and wakened a man named c. c.  sherman took Rosenfeid to c. o. general store iii the com. lnunlty Of Morrow. Oa., where iie