Stony Point, NY Charter Jet Crash, Dec 1974

Charter Plane Crashes; Three In Crew Dead.

STONY POINT, N. Y. (AP) – All three crew members died when a Northwest Airlines 727 charter jet crashed in a storm while en route to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team. No passengers were aboard.
The plane was bound Sunday night for Buffalo, N. Y., from Kennedy Airport in New York City.

The airline identified two of the crewmen as Capt. JOHN B. LAGARIO, 35, of Edma, Minn., and the flight engineer, JAMES F. COX, JR., of Seattle, Wash. The identity of the third crewman, the co-pilot, was withheld pending notification of relatives.

The plane left Kennedy at 7:14 p. m., and the pilot had radioed the Westchester County Airport in White Plains that he was clearing an altitude of 20,000 feet.

Suddenly, he radioed that he was “going into a spin,” and the plane disappeared from radar screens at several airports in the metropolitan New York area.

ERNIE ACCORSI, public relations director for the Colts, said in Buffalo that the plane was chartered at the last moment after a previously chartered plane was grounded by a snowstorm in Detroit. The team was waiting for the air ferry after losing to the Buffalo Bills, 6-0.

The Daily Times Salisbury Maryland 1974-12-02
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