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133rd YEAR NO. 208
Full Associated Press (AP), National News and Chicago News Wires and AP WIBEPHOTO.
NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDA'
LOADED PLANE ON MERCY RUN CRASHES; 4 DIE
N.O. Pilot Had Supplies for Gulf Coast Area
Four people in a small plane on a mercy mission to the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast died Tuesday morning when their light craft smashed into a seawall at the Lakefront Airport.
Police identified the pilot of the plane as Dr. George J. Garzotto, 35, 3008 Metairie Heights, an attorney and physician. He and the three persons with him died in the fire which engulfed the plane when it crashed.
The others were identified as John A. Slavich, 44, Belle Chasse, Dr. Garzotto’s law partner; a man tentatively identified as Ronald Crowe, 40, of Buras; and Robert Lee Hayes, 21, of Belle Chasse.
PENICILLIN ABOARD According to a witness, the plane — loaded with penicillin and other medical supplies — “never got off the ground.” Garzotto’s was one of hundreds of flights by private volunteers taking food, clothing and other supplies to victims of killer Hurricane Camille on the Mississippi coast and in Plaquemines Parish.
The witness said there was no attempt to abort the takeoff. The plane struck the seawall, its tail flipped up and it landed nose-first on the west seawall, where the plane caught fire.
Another witness, however, said the plane apparently had tried to stop as it approached the seawall.
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