Jack Turcott, Cheated Death In Air Battles, Dies In Crash
“ The craft then plummeted into the creek an sank almost instantly. The Navy plane, piloted by Ensign Kenneth A. Kuehner, of Minster, Ohio, with Second Class Seaman Franklin Newcomer, his passenger, landed safely. ”
Jack Turcott, Cheated Death In Air Battles, Dies In Crash
“ Cheated Death In Air Battles, Dies In Crash. By Jack Turcott. A 28-year-old flying instructor, who, as pilot for the Spanish Loyalist forces and transcontinental speed record breaker, defied death scores of times, was killed yesterday in a routine one-hour flight with a student near Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. The instructor, Edward Schneider [sic] , and his pupil, 37-year-old George W. Herzog, were drowned in Deep Creek, a small inlet off Jamaica Bay, at 1:30 P.M., a few seconds after their Piper Cub monoplane collided with a Navy biplane trainer 600 feet in the air. ”
