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Show |ginning to come across parts of the five and a half million dollar Boeing 707 that may help unravel the mystery of the crash, worst disaster in|volving a single aircraft in| this country. i an : i ‘It is designed to -withstam which smashed the Jetliner tc fragments. a ‘THE RECORDER tapes a | on the. I Tadechecbia ociy ok in “ of a f slike tis. ad alti- fligat It is the best hope of tateral aviation investigators seeking a clue as to why American’s as ihe tail, wings and| aircraft have} THUS FAR, however, there was no shred of evidence to. back up various theories as to Flight 1 plunged nose-first to disaster less than three min- what caused the erash—theo- | utes after takeoff Thursday at ries such as a Stall, motor failure, malfunction and the of controls like. , A Civil Aeronautics ‘Board investigator at the scene, who} declined use of his name, said the muck of the bay may ‘the crash was strikingly simiprovide’ additional clues. lar to that of an American Air| lines Boeing 707 that plunged ‘Meanwhile, parts of the plane being dredged from Cone devices in such secA, Whte into the the tip Atlantic Ocean of. Long. near Island, |} Jan. 28, 1961. Six all instruc: - E persons, trainers, or jet tors killed. Among 87 were . ii , :* 6% fb passeneeue aboard the plane in the Thurs| day crash was W. Alton Jones, 71, a New York oil man en : ik route to California to join his long-time friend, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on a fishing expedition, © FRIDAY, A briefcase identi- | fied as Jones’ yielded $38,400 in cash, in bills from singles | | to $500, and $7,000 in travelers checks. Also retrieved | from the wreckage was Jones’ Cw & wallet with in cash The recovery the victims Ss “So & rendingly “S-o more inside, than in bills $16,000 _ from | $500 to $10,000. of of the bodies | was heart- a. slow task. All day Thursday, Thursday night and Friday, the hunt went on. And it was continuing into a second night.— At Bellevue Morgue where the broken bodies were taken, FBI experts assisted city employes in matching finger. prints, dental plates, jewelry, clothing, personal papers and the like with the unidentified. dead. em Avia! tions fudé and other operational in- cockpit of the formation. been found. 10:07 a.m. from Idlewild Airpert for Los Angeles. the force of any crash, eve Thursday’s explosive pluns eg jf 5 ? # Tides NEW YORK, March 2—Icy ered the water level fro | tidal waters of Jamaica Bay. waist depth to eight feet con }Friday shrouded any clue to plicated their task. a the cause of an American AirChief target of the search lines jetliner crash that claimed the lives of all 95 per-| was the plane’s flight record: er box, a yellow, steel globe sons: aboard. the size of a basketball. BUT SEARCHERS IN the salt water and silt were be- 4 OO ———— and ‘a 5) 5 chee , ; FA taieesk ‘rash Clue é vy 4 ree mt “ey F 4 that z ae z beico By Associated Press” a ¥" Chul a 2 r og oeoa ‘ (AQ ick, if 2 i F i fio %. ee : : wer * » re i.e + ‘ * — eet © i +, SRE Rey 7. te i> ; t”™S Fi A 2. > : a ae mere F OOO s 4 {7 , _ a ek a Bi gk eT, AS i V y Te Crash F atal to0 95 Sul |
