11 Saved In Airline Crack-Up By Skill Of Rick Merrill
11 Saved In Airline Crack-Up By Skill Of Rick Merrill
Clip: 345829_1_1
Year Shot: 1936
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1518
Original Film: 008-521-01
HD: N/A
Location: PORT JERVIS, N.Y.
Timecode: 00:11:01 - 00:11:49
Shaky, blurry, light in contrast and imagery Faced with disaster in a blinding storm, Dick Merrill puts his big Eastern Air Lines Miami transport safely down on the side of a mountain. The trans-atlantic flier is the only one of eleven persons to be badly injured. Here the pilot is seen with the nurse who is taking his pulse.