Dream Of Three Died In Crash

ROBERT L. BROWN ...trapped in plane? LOUIS G. ENGEL ...three years of work Dream Of Three Died In Crash By HELEN WATERHOUSE Shattered bits of bright metal found strewn over a half-mile area near Greensburg and being studied today by governmen inspectors bear mute witness to the shattered dream of three young aircraft engineers. Bodies of two of the three who had worked three years on the plane, lie in funeral homes. The body of Robert Lee Brown, 33, of 244 Pine st. at Billows, will be taken to his old home in Clarksburg, W. Va., for burial Wednesday. The body of Louis G. Engel, 26, of 216 W. Long st., at Adams Funeral home, is to be shipped to his old home in Camden, N. J. tonight.

THE THIRD member of the enthusiastic team of airplane builders, C. L. Jamieson, 3475 Sanatorium rd., is aiding inspectors trying to determine why the sleek little low-wing, three-place craft fell apart in the air. Jamieson was at the Akron-Canton Airport awaiting the return of Engel and Brown from the last evaluation flight before the inspectors took over. Fred Bailey, manager of the airport where the men had been working on the plane, today broadcast an appeal for anyone who finds the right flap and one door of the plane—still missing—to bring them to his office. “We already have determined that the cause of the crash must have been structural failure,” said Bailey, one of the first to reach the scene. “We found parts of the plane later as far as 3,000 feet from the crash. Witnesses say the plane seemed to fall apart in mid air. We found a rear elevator 3,000 feet away and a control cable 500 feet away. “We believe they lost the rear elevator when coming out of a spin. The right wing collapsed about 2,000 feet in the air and folded back over the canopy, preventing the two men inside from jumping out in their chutes.” * * * THE INSPECTORS arrived at the field only a few moments after the tragedy occurred. After 80 hours of successfully test-flying the plane—a single-engined job which they had hoped to produce in some quantity, the three engineers had summoned the government men. This was to be their big day. After spending months on their plane and putting most of their cash into it, they were ready to move to a plant site already selected in Florida. Inspectors William Norton and R. J. Curry of Middletown narrowly missed the fate of the two young fliers. They would have been on the next flight.

control cable 500 feet away. “We believe they lost the rear elevator when coming out of a spin. The right wing collapsed about 2,000 feet in the air and folded back over the canopy, preventing the two men inside from jumping out in their chutes.” * * * THE INSPECTORS arrived at the field only a few moments after the tragedy occurred. After 80 hours of successfully test-flying the plane—a single-engined job which they had hoped to produce in some quantity, the three engineers had summoned the government men. This was to be their big day. After spending months on their plane and putting most of their cash into it, they were ready to move to a plant site already selected in Florida. Inspectors William Norton and R. J. Curry of Middletown narrowly missed the fate of the two young fliers. They would have been on the next flight.