Airliner Crashes With 49 Aboard
LIMA, Peru (AP) Search planes today sighted the wreckage of
an airliner that disappeared with 43 passengers and a crew
of six in rugged Andes. It was not known immediately if
there were any survivors. Five of the passengers were
Americans. Lineas Areas Nacionales said search planes
located the smashed four-engine Constellation near
Huampara, about 60 miles southeast of Lima. The plane
vanished Wednesday. The Lima airport said the plane radioed
a distress call 10 minutes after taking off, and police at
Cuzco said they had a report it crashed at Coclococha, 170
miles south of Lima. The airline said the plane carried 43
passengers and a crew of 60: The Americans were the pilot,
William Jones of Miami, Fla., three Peace Corps volunteers
Gerald Francis Flynn, 26, of Seattle, Wash, Paul L. Bond,
24, of Jonesboro, Ark., and Troy M. Ross, 25, of Boise,
Idaho and George A. Hoffman, 42, a geologist. Flynn and
Bond were based in Ecuador and Ross in Cuzco.1
Sources:
- The Times (Streator, Illinois) 28 Apr 1966, Thu Page 1
