Calmness, Cooperation and Luck
Marked Rescue Of Survivors Of
NW Stratocruiser In Puget Sound
SEATTLE, Uft—The deep waters
of Puget Sound Tuesday held the
answer to what caused a crippled
luxury airliner to crash-land and
sink between Seattle and Tacoma
Monday morning with a loss of
five lives.
Thirty - three other persons
aboard the Northwest Orient Air
lines Stratoeruiser were snatched
from the frigid waters in a rescue
operation marked by calmness,
cooperation and just plain luck.
The huge, double - deck craft,
shaking from a sudden and severe
vibration, belly-flopped into the
sound in an emergency landing
described by one survivor “as no
worse than the sudden stopping
of a ear.”
The crash occurred just minutes
after the plane left the Seattle
Tacoma International Airport on
a flight with New York as its
destination.
The Coast Guard reports the
water in the area where the
plane sunk is 432 feet deep; too
deep for a diver to work.
It was a sudden, unexplained
and terrific vibrating of the plane
that caused the pilot, Capt. Robt.
R. Heard of Seattle, to attempt
the crash landing in the Sound.
The Stratoeruiser remained
afloat 15 minutes, giving passen
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gers and crew members a chance
to leave the cabin bnd clamber
onto the wings. After the craft
sank, most of the survivors bob
bed about in the water on seat
cushions taken from the plane.
Because the plane was not on
an over-water route there were no
rubber life rafts aboard.
Rescue plane flew over the
scene minutes after the crash and
dropped rafts to survivors strug
gling in the water.
But many of the survivors cred
ited the seat cushions with sav
ing their lives. Stewardesses Dor
othy Oetting and Eleanor Whit
acre had directed them to take
them.
The coldness of the water, esti
mated between 40 and 45 de
grees, may have caused the vic
tims to slip to their deaths because
of numb fingers.
The dead were identified as
Paul Wehrman of Seattle; Dr.
George B. Hook of Tacoma; Tsiu
Kong Lin of Hong Kong, and her
son, Yee Song Foon, 4.
Listed as missing was David V.
Razey of Seattle, flight service
attendant. He is believed to have
been trapped in the plane.
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Alfred Sloan, 80, Retires j
As Chairman of GM Board
NEW YORK, UP) — Alfred P.
Sloan Jr., 80-year-old pioneer
auto maker, has resigned as board
chairman of General Motors Corp.
Albert Bradley, 64, English
born member of the GM board
of directors and an executive vice
president, succeeded Sloan in a
series of top - level personnel
changes.
Sloan’s 38-year career with GM
began shortly after the birth of
the automobile industry. In the
1930s he led GM through the de
pression. The firm grew into the
world’s largest auto maker and
the world’s largest industrial cor
poration.
Harlow W. Curtice, who re
mains as GM president, saluted
Sloan:
“Of all the men ever associ
ated with General Motors, none
has looked forward as steadily
as he. Always he has kept his
eye on the future.”
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