Mx. George Rumill, the pilot, learned to fly in -U.S. Naval" Air Service during the war and served overseas, being attached to. the Northern Bombing Group. When the returned to America he started fying commercially. He flew for a rear number of years for the Flying Service of New Later on when the Curtiss Wright Corporation was formed he flew for them at their New York station in the summer months and at Miami, Fla. in the winter time,:|making many' fights Unrough the Bahamas and the West Indies. He iwas then attached to the Cuban National Aviation Company Havana and flew actively as a transport pilot on their air line for }two years before he wax trans ferred to China in June 1933. He fs regarded as one of the best and "conservative transport pilots with flying time of more than 5,000 hours.
Dr. Dana Nance also, made mention of the passengers' unanimity in praising the pilot's endeavour £0 minimise the effects of the crash. Without his presence of mind the wreckage might have been transformed into a fiery holocaust fed by the flames of spilt petrol.
The pilot's action was endorsed Lady Carlisle, who, Mr. Grooch understood, had been involved in two] earlier aircraft accidents, Theory of Smash A. detailed theory of how the rash occurred was given to news-per representatives yesterday by it. W. S. Grooch of the C.N.A.C., flight to the scene of the mash and. interviews with both lot and ce-pilot of the wrecked sikorsky. Mr. Grooch was a War comrade of "Mr. Rumill. From completed inquiries, he said, it now Sppeared that the plane paler course, from Shang Wenchow, which leaves the land to! past over Hangchow Bay some 20 miles from here. About 45 miles fog patch ahead, and causing sea fand Sig' to blend into. one' blur. Immediately the chief pilot real ed he was fying blind he made a fra tothe left—in the direct which it so happened. that, the land, some two or three miles long sing to 900 fee, was, conceal {ng Tally low to, keep. below the the swirling obscurity. Fly-
clouds, the pilot. had been unable fo see' anything at the moment of the turn.
Slid Up Hillside longs narrow ridge, but the frst inland slopes upward
eating' the pilot received was a ack under his plane. Unable. to fimpee of the shore line sweeping ses. ahead, he bad only" a "pelt Second in'which to hau! back Ske whee! and. Gut the. engines: There wes a. oonam amount Enreeed cultivation on the hilsie, So that the plane inst have suifer™ several bad jolts, bot f was not fine i had ald ight up the, side she fled over the top, of the Flige'to the spot where the. lay fon the for side of the brink.
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