Plane Crash Kills Woman

PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) - A woman killed in the crash-landing of an Alaska coastal airlines flying boat Friday was identified Saturday as Miss Margaret Annis, 42, a nurse.

She was flying from Juneau to Wrangell, where she was to start work in a hospital Saturday. She was formerly of Puyallup, Wash., and Payson and Nephi, Utah.

The fatally injured woman had been wrongly identified Friday as Margaret Bell.

The plane, piloted by Mike Fenster, was forced down in a snowstorm shortly after leaving Petersburg for Wrangell Friday. A wind and an engine were torn off the pane [sic], which wound up on the beach of Farm island near the mouth of the Stikine river.

Survivors were taken to the Barland Breeze cabin on nearby Dry island, where they were treated by Dr. Harold Bangerman, who was flown in from Petersburg.

Most seriously injured of the survivors was A. "Zeke" Dale, who suffered two broken legs, according to sketchy reports from the isolated crash area late Friday night. Others received scrateches an [sic] bruises.

The Walla Walla Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, WA 3 Dec 1949
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