![]() except Grace Pelton, a well-known music teacher. All were employed by The Dow Chemical Co. Parsons, Lester Earl Wilensky, Shirley Jean Goetz, Read Dilworth McNally, Prudence Windsor and Jean Hodgson. The close-in approach, short radius of turn and the steep bank may well be attributable to an attempt by the pilot to keep the lighted runway in sight because of the restricted visibility occasioned by snow showers and freezing drizzle."Īmong the dead were eight Midlanders: Earl and Grace Pelton, Glenn W. "It is probable that the existing weather conditions contributed materially to this accident. Also there were high gusty winds and the plane may have accumulated ice. The plane's stall warning device was not working. In its report on the fatal crash, released in April, 1959, the Civil Aeronautics Board said the plane probably stalled during a steep turn and fell to earth nose first. All 47 persons, 44 passengers and a crew of three, aboard the British-built Capital Airlines Viscount were killed in the crash which occurred during a drizzling rain with intermittent snow according to Midland Daily News archives.
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