The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-26
@ Persons
 Die Outside 0fShonghoi
AmeFic0n Pilof Killed, Another Receives Injuries

Chinese airlines officials announced today that 62 per. sons were killed and 16 in- iured seriously when three Chinese airliners trapped by fog crashed outside Shang- hai within three hours last night.
 A fourth Chinese airliner carrying seven passengers was missing and was feared Q have
 Caps, ,. N. Greenwood. Austazs Tex, pilot Oe one of the crushed planes. was ane only Amerscan killed. Capt Rolf Brandt Pr0uA Minneapolis, pilot of second plane was hospitalined with injuries ot undetermined extent, No ether Americans were Involved in el1e crashes, according to the bege h. formation available.
 sl Killed In Thar6 CeaaA
 Twelve persons were Killed A 0ze first crash, including an eagh3 pas sengerS. three crew members ono c Chinese peasant woman wnoss house was hit by ehe plane Ntne@ teen died in the second craSA ana Sl in the third.
 Fsr& repoges ng the ClAlnnse ae~ lines that 77 persons dieo ia w1e three crasfee were reduced when rescue wur&eEx reaching the wreck aee of one plane found fewer per- sons a6oard than had been believed.
 All three pSlots fought desperaeeay to land tfelr planes safely afeer be- inn caught unexpectedly hy fog and rain. They could not ts1En back be- cause the field they he'd left lacked nighk landing facilities. Their fszg1 San1uaiee were exhausted while tkey tried to make bind landings se ShMnuhaa.
 The three craSned planes were ens route to Shanghai from Chxmgkin Two belonged Co the China National Aviation Corp. And one Go the China Ar Transport Corp.
 ls Pm@es CumSeEgea um Caay Thirteen passenger planea we cunverwing on Shanghai ak naghttaA wnen Taae weaEnSr N1wua & 0e landed safely eE the KiAngwam Msl- itaxy Aiu6ronAe. MSAlk MNG2 1elzeze1 to have turned baek saee1y eo ether faeaas.
 Aai taaree doomed planes mAae nE3ef stous as wachang on the Yangtza River, received favorable weather re- ports and continued toward Slaan8- hai. Dense fog with nero visibilty en- shronded them. bus t was eoo late for che three to turn back.
 F5rst to crasn wns a C-45 Cf the CATO carrying eigl1k passengers and three crew members. It cfrcled the Kiangwan Field while u. S Army ground personnel tried vainly to ee- eablish radar contact. Pil0k T. O. Wing. an American-horn Chinege. finally tried to land the plane bus overshot the field and hit peasants house. The peasant wife. the mother of six, was killed and three children burned.
 Two American Ar Transport Com mand crash trucks hurried to the scene. Maj. William 6. Hyxne. Cooa- vile, Tenn. a flight surgeon attach ed to ATC headquarters in Tokyo was overcome by fumes while hunt ing survivors. He was rescued hy md It. Orhan Duggan, Athens Temn- Q communication officer.
 Circlea Field Two HouE8
 Greenwoodis CNAC plane. . C-e1 with 1T passengers and two other crew members ciroaed Kiangxan. failed to pick up the blind landing signals and turned south toward the Lunghwa Commercial Airport. For two hours t circled LAnghwa. then crashed at 7:A5 P. M. Ten persons including Greenwood were killed in- stantly. nine died later and the n others were injured seriously.
 The third crash occurred 6 a rain soaked field one mile from Lunghwa. This plane was q C-4S c9 CNAC piloeed by Capt. R. B. Freus. It too failed to establish conface with the Bline landing signals at KR- angwan and turned toward Lungh- va. Thirty-one died. PcE1ls was be- leved to be one of the two hoGplenA- i1ed survivors.