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Died. Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, 74, son of a Sicilian miller, who suffered mysterious psychosomatic pains until he satisfied a compulsion to fly, became a pioneer pilot, instructor (one student: Fiorello La Guardia), and designer whose monoplanes were the first to make nonstop flights carrying a passenger across the Atlantic (1927) and spanning the Pacific (1931); of leukemia; in New York City...
...Guardia: All right now, we got troubles, but we're not sure of it. We lost contact with a TWA Two Six Six ... He was on a collision course with an aircraft, an unknown aircraft, heading northeast from Preston toward Flatbush. That aircraft now is a mile outside the La Guardia outer marker, heading northeast bound...
...Guardia: Yeah, well what type aircraft is that...
...Guardia: And what's his altitude...
...Guardia: Oh boy, our man was at five...