Evening star., 1951-04-26
More Bodies Taken
From Plane Wreckaqe
I'm Which 43 Died
BY the Associated Press

Grim Navy divers recovered more
wreckage and mangled bodies to-
day from the shattered sections Of
la Cuban airliner and a Navy
trainer plane which collided ane
killed 43 persons.
i BY noon, a total of "a bodie.
had been brought to the surface
and taken to morgues in this
;. lSouthernmost city in the United
'lStates.J 10 were located yesterday
latter the crash.
/ Nineteen divers worked in re-
lays, two at a time, over the
smashed pieces of the four-en-
lgined transport, scattered over a
wide area on the sandy bottom
20 feet below the surface.
Trainer Two Miles Away.
Other divers located what was
left of the Navy trainer plane
about two miles away. The Big
Wheel, the boat used for fishing
trips by President Truman. found
the wreckage with graphing
irons.
The four r-engined transport
carrying "a passengers and {
crewmen from Miami to Havana
and the. Navy plane, a twin-en-
gined Beechcraft with four aboard
collided over Key West shortly be-
fore noon yesterday.
Then, in full view of hundreds
the airliner power-dived into the
ocean at speed estimated at
900 miles an hour. It landed a
half mile offshore. not far from
President Truman's "Ihttle White
House."
So quickly did Navy craft &c
into action that the first body
from the Navy plane was recov-
cred in 10 minutes and the first
from the airliner in Is minutes.
Inquiry Board Set Up.
The noise of the collision
shocked hundreds to attention
George and Charles Faraldo
operators of a Key West flying
service. said the left wing tip o1
the transport fell off and it went
into a tight spiral. H.
''The pilot turned on full power
and managed to pull out of the
SPIRAL" George related. 'But
then the plane nosed over in q
straight dive and hit the water
with the engines wide open.
1.-THE water spewed so high into
the air we could see it over the
treetops from the airport"
A naval Board of Inquiry,
headed by Capt. r. S., Quacken-
bush, jr., commander Of the Boca
lChica Naval Air Station, was set
Iup in an effort to determine why
the planes collided in perfect hy-
ling weather. with unlimited Wis
ibility.
Capt. Quackenbush said the
Navy plane may have been en-
gagged in "blind flying" practice,
but added that in such cases lone
of the pilots has clear visual OBJ
servation at all times"
Names of Dead.
The names of the dead as re-
leased in Miami by Pan Ameri-
can World Always, an affiliate
of Compania Guiana de Aviacion,
and the Navy:
Bernard Friedlander, New York.
Helene Ruskin, Chicago, Ill.
Betty Sargent, Havana, Cuba.
DR.. James Wallace, Jackson
vile.
Charlotte Wallace. same ad-
dress.
DR.. Robert Glenn. jackson
vile.
Katherine Glenn, same address
Allan Nelson. Turlock, Calf.
Elvera Nelson, same address.
William Apfelbaum, Miami
Beach.
Irene Apfelbaum, same address
Alice Worley, Philadelphia.
Mrs. Florence Williams, Cleve-
land. Ohio.
Gertrude Odom, Miami.
Gladys Coloma Gutierrez, Santi-
ago, Cuba.
Samuel M. Smolen, Philadel-
lphia.
Martin W. Schoenberg, Jenkin-
town, Pa.
Helmuth Wexler. Astoria, N. Y.
Irma Wexler, same address.
Ruth Hyman, Bronx, N. Y.
Ida Rosenberg, same address.
Charles Revise, Philadelphia.
Rita Antonia Linares Alfonso,
Havana.
Manual Rodolfo Lopez-Lage
Cuervo, same address.
Verne Bender, Miami.
Ruth Bender, same address.
Lenore Wright, Youngstown,
Ohio.
Leo Henry. jr, Valparaiso
Chile.
Gloria Henry, same address.
Leo Henriquez, Valparaiso, Chile
Leo Schnell, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Alfred j. Finkenberg, New York
Antonio Maria Gonzalez J
Jimenez, Havana.
RaQuel Tobiola Penichft y An
duiza, same address.
| The crew members, all of Ha-
vana: Capt. Javier zayas Bazan
81, pilot. Co-pilot Jesus Fernan-
dez Pacherco, %. Purser Pablo
Valencia, 81. Steward Francisco
Martinez Moles, "a. Capt. Or
lando Salas, 81, flying as extra
crewman.
The Navy victims were: 1t
G.g) Robert L. Stuart, Pensacola
the pilot. Ensign Eugene S. Bards-
Hey, Spokane, Wash, co-pilot
Francis L. Ready, midshipman
Cold Springs Harbor, Long Island
N. Y. Martin C. Gasser, Lavalle
Wis, aviation radioman first class