Evening star., 1947-01-27
Denmark Limits
Plane Weight as
Result ofCrash
n Victims Include
Grace Moore and
Swedish Prince
By the Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Jan. 27.-Dan-
ish authorities clamped a weight
limit today on DC-3 transport
planes of 1929 pounds less than
the overall load of the airliner
which crashed and burned yes
terday, killing Grace Moore of
the opera, Swedish Prince Gus
tav Adolf and 20 others.
M. P. Eskildsen, Danish air con-
troll supervisor, said DC-3 planes
leaving Danish fields must not in
the future be loaded to weigh more
than 11,450 Kilograms (25,243
pounds. The ill-fated airliner which
fell at Gastrup Airfield yesterday
had a weight of 12,189 kilograms
(26,872 pounds, he said.
The Royal Dutch Airline plane
(KLM, however, was loaded within
the limits prescribed by the Neither
lands, which permit planes of that
type to carry a cargo load to bring
the total weight to 12,300 Kilograms
GILT pounds.
(Jane's All the World Aircraft,
standard aviation reference
work, lists the maximum weight
of the American-built Douglas
DC-3 at 25,200 pounds.)
Burned Beyond Recognition.
Miss Moore's body, like all the
others except that of the prince, was
burned and broken beyond recog-
milton. The plane, which a 54-year-
old pilot was flying, was consumed
so completely that it appeared
doubtful whether investigators would
find tenable clue to any possible
mechanical defect.
Across the narrow waters in SWe-
den, the flag over the royal castle in
Stockholm flew at half staff for the
first time since the death of Queen
Victoria CT Sweden in April of 1880.
The death of the tall, handsome
and athletic prince was the first by
accident in the long history Of the
royal Bernadotte family. The prince
was returning from hunting trip
in Holland. His death placed his
9-month- -old son, Karl Gustav, Sec
ond in line for the crown of King
Gustav v after the victims father,
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf.
The 88-year-old Swedish King,
deeply grieved by the death of his
eldest grandson, was to visit the
widowed Princess Sibylla during the
day. Sibyalla broke the news of
their fathers death to her four
daughters only this morning.
Husband to Fly From Paris.
Burned with the princes luggage
aboard the crashed liner were four
Dutch dolls, gifts of Crown Princess
Juliana of Holland to the little
girls, Margaretha, Christina, Desiree
and Brigetta.
Miss Moore's husband, Valentin
Parera, was expected to reach
Copenhagen from Paris by plane
tonight or Tuesday, the American
Legation said. First plans had been
to send the body to Paris,- but these
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been identified. Three women were
aboard the plane and one of the
women's bodies has been identified,
simplifying the task.
Miss Moore, who began her singing
career in a Tennessee choir and won
fame as a star in musical comedy,
the opera and the movies, was the
only American in the Inflated plane.
The singer had just completed a
concert engagement in Copenhagen
and was enroute to another in
Sweden. The husband of the As
yesr-old soprano heard the news of
i1er death at Mougins, France,
where he was convalescing from an
illness. A close friend said he was
terribly shocked"
The DC-3 transport plane, with
Is passengers and a crew of six
aboard, crashed on the airstrip just
after taking off for Stockholm. The
liner Immediately broke into flames
and blazed so fiercely there was no
chance for anyone to escape.
The bulletin issued by Royal
Dutch Airlines said the plane took
off normally under good weather
conditions, but Immediately after
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