Son Of Former Congressman A. S. Kreider, Of Annville - Kreider's Machine Locked With Another In Mid-Air And Both Fell A Distance Of 800 Feet - Two Aviators In Other Plane Escaped With Injuries, Hundreds Witnessed Accident.
When his airplane collded with another airplane at Ford Field at Detroit, Ammon H. Kreider, 47, son of Aaron S. Kreider, of Annville, former Congressman of this district, was killed Saturday afternoon.
Others injured in the collision were: William Naylor, Detroit, pilot of the other plane, and Allan Bruce, of Akron, Ohio, passenger in the other plane.
Kreider was alone in his plane. Naylor was piloting his plane above the ariport as Kreider took off in the same direction. Kreider's plane, at a geight of about 800 feet, collided with the nose of the other craft. As Kreider was directly under Taylor, it is presumed neither of the pilots saw each other.
Planes Lock and Fall
The planes locked fell a short distance and separated. Kreider's plane fell on its nose. The other circled to the ground, where it turned over and pinned Naylor and Bruce to the ground about 100 feet from where Kreider fell.
Hundreds of persons who were in Detroit to attend the All-American Aircraft Show witnessed the accident.
Kreider was president of the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft company, Hagerstown. The Fairchild Aviation company had recently purchased the controlling interest in his company and he had gone to Detroit in connection the merger.
Before going to Hagerstown six years ago to engage in the airplane business, Kreider was associated with his father in shoe manufacturing and resided at Fourth and Cumberland streets in this city. He later sold the Christ Shenk home in which he lived to Dr. Horace W. Means. During his residence here he was connected with the Kreider shoe factory at Eighth and Water Streets. At one time he was general manager of the former Kreider Shoe company plant at Middletown.
Brother Resided Here
Kreider is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron S. Kreider; his wife , who was Miss Nettie Lockman, York, before her marriage; two children, Margaret, a student at Goucher College, and Ammon H. Kreider, Jr., at home; three sisters, Mrs. Williams Boger, Washington; Miss Nancy Kreider, a student at Columbia University, and Miss Mary Kreider, at home, and five brothers, A. S. Kreider, Jr., Elizabethtown; Henry Kreider, Lebanon; Clement H. Kreider, 611 North Front street, Harrisburg; Howard Kreider, Grantville, and George Kreider, a student at Yale University.
The body was taken to Hagerstown for burial.
Lebanon Daily News - Monday, April 15, 1929