Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-15
4 on Craft Die
With 5 Others
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Six Homes Are Set
Attire, Additional
Bodies Sought

Bodies Sought
NORTH HOLLYWOOD,
Calf, Dec. is (AP) "A cargo
carrying airliner, wheels down,
landing lights burning, dropped
from foggy sky last night into
a row Of suburban homes. Nine
persons died in flames in a
block-long disaster.
Four of the dead were men
aboard the Flying Tiger Lines
Constellation.
One man, two women and
two teen-age girls were found
in the wreckage of shattered
homes.
Firemen were still probing
the smoking ruins early today,
fearing there were more bodies.
All the victims we're burned.
Six Homes Set Attire
Six homes and two CONNER
cial buildings were set afire as
blazing gasoline spewed from
the wreckage.
The four-engine plane fell
in a section of the San Fer
nando Valley a quarter of a
mile from its destination, Lock-
heed Air Terminal, in Burbank.
The flight originated in Bos-
ton and was coming in from
Chicago, officials said. The
plane was carrying Christmas
toys, electronic parts, clothing
and machinery.
In addition to its crew of
three, the airliner carried only
one persona passenger who
had hitched a ride.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
launched an immediate in
quiry into the crash.
Landing Gear Was Down
e Motorists and pedestrians
,r stared in disbelief as the plane
J. swept across busy Laurel Can
n yon boulevard so low they
e could see the blue flame of its
It exhausts-as If it we're making
t a routine landing
: Mike Powers, who was walk
ing to his car, said:
1T had its landing gear and
: the flaps down. The landing
) lights were burning. I Just
couldn't believe it could come
down there. Then the left
, wing dipped and the plane
smashed in. nose first"
The plane clipped power lines,
which whiplashed across homes
and yards, trailing sparks -
and plunged an already panic
stricken neighborhood into
darkness lit only by blazing
homes and wreckage.
Screams rose from the block
as the rumble of the crash sub
sided" one resident said. THE
children were terrified. Every
thing was black, and the homes
were burning"
Planes Dead Identified
: The four dead taken from
the plane were identified as:
Capt. Karl c. RAIDER, jr., 3S,
Burlingame, Calf; co-pilot
David L. Grape, IS, Compton,
Calf; Flight Engineer Jack w.
Grey, SO, San Mateo, CALI, and
the passenger. John A. Olson,
Sunland, Calf, husband Of an
employe of the airline.
Hours after the crash the
only other victim identified was
|. Cathleen Ann Roche, l6, whose
parents and three brothers and
: sisters fled from their burning
) home and escaped.
The biggest piece Of the plane
which remained intact after the
crash was the midsection Of the
tuselage. The wings, engines,
tail and nose broke off and big
chunks tore through the homes
and a nearby factory.
Il saw the nose fly off" Mr..
Powers, a college student, said,
land almost Immediately It
looked like a whole block was
burning.
FLAMES we're leaping two
and three stories in the air."
Thousands Jam Area
Thousands OF persons. at
tracted by the flames, jammed
! into the area. The throng de-
: layed fire equipment rushing
10 the scene. Thirteen fire
, companies answered the call.
North Hollywood is part OF
the city Of Los Angeles and adj
, Joins Burbank. The scene Of
the crash was near Laurel
, Canyon boulevard and Vose
, street, north Of the main North
, Hollywood business district.