Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
BurialLakewood Cemetery, 3600 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota [58062], [58063]
FatherGeorge Lincoln SCOTT (1867-1945)
MotherAda Blanche CRAMER (1869-1954)
Spouses
Obituary Online notes for Phillip Cramer SCOTT
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Phillip scott , pilot-x Killed, 10 Hurt in Crash Of N. Y. Airliner at Chicago
Submitted by Greg Eichelberger
Illinois | 1940
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 — A twin-motored United Airlines transport plane, inbound from New York in cloudy, freezing weather, crashed and burned tonight at the edge of the Chicago Airport at Cicero Avenue and Sixty-third Street, in the
outskirts of the city.
Six persons, including the pilot and first officer of the plane, were killed and ten injured, eight of them seriously. No one aboard escaped injury.
The crash occurred as the plane, more than an hour overdue from Cleveland, nosed down toward the airport. It lost flying speed at an altitude of about 150 feet and dived into the ground. Airport attendants said that the airliner, flying with a 1,200-foot ceiling and visibility of about a mile, had accumulated three inches of ice on its wings when it fell.
Following are the victims of the crash:
DEAD
Captain PHILIP SCOTT of Chicago, the pilot.
GEORGE YOUNG of Chicago, first officer.
W. J. AUSTIN of Cleveland, president of the Austin Company, engineers.
F. W. MOORE of Cleveland, government employee.
LEE HAMELEIN of Chicago, Eastern superintendent of reservations for United Air Lines.
Miss JANE SELBY of Chicago,
Curtiss Candy Company employee.
Dec. 5, 1940 edition of "The New York Times" [58062]
Phillip scott , pilot-x Killed, 10 Hurt in Crash Of N. Y. Airliner at Chicago
Submitted by Greg Eichelberger
Illinois | 1940
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 — A twin-motored United Airlines transport plane, inbound from New York in cloudy, freezing weather, crashed and burned tonight at the edge of the Chicago Airport at Cicero Avenue and Sixty-third Street, in the
outskirts of the city.
Six persons, including the pilot and first officer of the plane, were killed and ten injured, eight of them seriously. No one aboard escaped injury.
The crash occurred as the plane, more than an hour overdue from Cleveland, nosed down toward the airport. It lost flying speed at an altitude of about 150 feet and dived into the ground. Airport attendants said that the airliner, flying with a 1,200-foot ceiling and visibility of about a mile, had accumulated three inches of ice on its wings when it fell.
Following are the victims of the crash:
DEAD
Captain PHILIP SCOTT of Chicago, the pilot.
GEORGE YOUNG of Chicago, first officer.
W. J. AUSTIN of Cleveland, president of the Austin Company, engineers.
F. W. MOORE of Cleveland, government employee.
LEE HAMELEIN of Chicago, Eastern superintendent of reservations for United Air Lines.
Miss JANE SELBY of Chicago,
Curtiss Candy Company employee.
Dec. 5, 1940 edition of "The New York Times" [58062]