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Cheated Death in Air Battles, Dies in Crash (English)
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24 December 1940
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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, 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. Witnesses said the left wing of Schneider's plane apparently struck the Navy ship's landing gear as both planes were coming down, from different directions, for a landing. Wing Falls Off. The collision forced Schneider's ship into a tailspin and as he fought to straighten his plane, the damaged wing fell off. The craft then plummeted into the creek and sank almost instantly. … They were hurried to the deck of a partly-submerged barge nearby, where a physician pronounced them dead after attempts at artificial resuscitation. Herzog, father of two children, was a builder, according to officials of the Archie Baxter Flying Service, for whom Schneider worked. Schneider, who began flying at 16, was one of the nation's most adventuresome pilots. On August 18, 19, 20, when he was 18, he set a new junior speed record of 29 hours, 41 minutes for a flight from Westfield, New Jersey, to Los Angeles. A week later he broke two more records for the eastward flight across the country. (English)
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