China National Aviation Corporation
While serving as the Director of the China National Aviation Corporation, he was killed in a plane crash in Hong Kong, on December 21, 1948. He was 29. His C-54 plane crashed on a mountain on Basalt Island, near Sai Kung. All 35 on board were killed instantly. There is no clear record of recovery or disposition of his remains, but they are believed to have been left on Basalt Island. A memorial gravestone for him is located at his wife's grave in Youngs Cemetery in Oyster Bay, New York.