Bungles

Ironically last week, when the Ail-American Aircraft Show at Detroit was in full cry about flying safety, there were a score of serious accidents, mishaps or bungles all over the world. In double irony the most inexcusable one was at Detroit itself, over Ford Airport. President Ammon Horst Kreider of Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co.* was coasting about in his Challenger. Shooting from below on its take-off and smashing into the Challenger went an experimental plane piloted by Captain Alan E. T. Bruce. Akron pilot, carrying William Charles Naylor, Ford aeronautical engineer. Dead: Kreider and Bruce; injured: Naylor.

* Last week acquired by Fairchild Aviation Corp., itself recently acquired by Aviation Corporation.