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AMERICAN AIR
CRASHES par
. IT- - I
NEW YORK, Sunday.,
The toll of the La- Guardia air
crash rose to '41 to,day-with the
deaths of two injured survivors
- At Redbank, New Jersey, two men
were killed and 10 missed death by
inches when a Piper Cub plane and
a four-engined naval transport of the
Skymaster type collided. in and air
Both occupants of the Cub were
killed but the Navy plane returned
to the base.
Had the point of impact been a
few inches nearer the body the outer
engine would have been hit and
Would have meant almost certain
death for the ten men aboard. " A
Government investigators to-day
studied evidence that a defective tail
structure caused the crash of the,
Eastern Airlines Skymaster- near
Havre de Grace, Merrylands, on
Friday.
Portions of the tail Were found ' ¿
half a mile from the crash
The chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Board (James Landis) said
that a theory had been advanced that
the propeller had a broken *? and portions
had struck the 'tail
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