Kathy Pinna
Inquiry Launched on Crash
SYLVA - Federal investigators were attempting Monday to find the cause of a weekend plane crash which killed four persons, three of them members of a spiritual sect. The single-engine plane crashed near the community of Cashiers in mountainous Jackson County near the South Carolina line.
Jackson County Coroner Dr. Emil Henning identified the plane's piolet as Freddie Taylor, 20, of Asheville and one passenger, Ronald Steven Michalove, 26, of Winston=Salem. Henning tentatively identified the other two victims as April Clements, 32, of Chicago, and Joe T. Clark, 29, of Massachusetts. The three passengers belonged to a spiritualist sect and were flying over the mountains in search of a site for a school, Hennings said.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and a representative from the Charlotte office of the Federal Aviation Administration were on the crash scene Monday to determine the cause of the crash.
- The Charlotte Observer, Tuesday, June 27, 1972, on page 7.
Jackson County Coroner Dr. Emil Henning identified the plane's piolet as Freddie Taylor, 20, of Asheville and one passenger, Ronald Steven Michalove, 26, of Winston=Salem. Henning tentatively identified the other two victims as April Clements, 32, of Chicago, and Joe T. Clark, 29, of Massachusetts. The three passengers belonged to a spiritualist sect and were flying over the mountains in search of a site for a school, Hennings said.
Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and a representative from the Charlotte office of the Federal Aviation Administration were on the crash scene Monday to determine the cause of the crash.
- The Charlotte Observer, Tuesday, June 27, 1972, on page 7.
