Rank and name: Major William L. Dotson
Date of birth: August 20, 1921
Role during flight: Pilot
Rescued by: Mark Brandon and Isaac Dominic
Put ashore at: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation landing at Rutherglen
Street
Hospital: Montefiore Hospital
Details: Dotson was saved when Mark Brandon and Isaac Dominic of the crew
of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation towboat Titan, piloted by Captain James D. Cypher, launched a skiff and
pulled him to safety.
Rank and name: "Captain John F. Jamieson"
Age: Looked to be in his mid-fifties
Role during flight: Co-pilot
Rescued by: Hank Cisclo and Kenneth Hall of the crew of the Ohio Barge
Line, Inc towboat Expeditor, piloted by Captain Carol E. Long.
Put ashore at: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation landing at Rutherglen
Street
Hospital: Montefiore Hospital
Details: The Titan and Expeditor docked together at the J&L
plant landing at Rutherglen Street. After a brief exchange with the ranking police officer at the scene, this "Jamieson"
was immediately brought aboard the Titan. Captain Cypher offered Dotson and "Jamieson" hot showers and coffee
and the "FBI" was called. In Captain Cypher’s own words: "They (the reporters) wanted to swarm all over and
we put them off and we called the government. And the government men came and that’s the only ones we’d leave
interview them."
Dotson and "Jamieson" were then taken to Montefiore Hospital.
Even though Major Dotson and the real Captain Jamieson had been photographed earlier and separately that day, (Dotson aboard the Titan and Jamieson on a gurney at the Hazelwood Avenue location) these
two men suddenly became quite camera shy. The nurse on duty Lillian O’Donnell revealed: "When the pilot and
the co-pilot were being admitted, they were in the Emergency Room for a long time, but when they were being admitted to the
room, all the photographers and reporters were all around. Neither the pilot nor co-pilot wanted to be photographed. So I
put a light towel over their faces and we took them, quickly, on stretchers over to the room where they were being admitted."
Rank and name: Captain John F. Jamieson
Date of birth: October 15, 1923
Role during flight: Co-pilot
Rescued by: Sergeant P. R. Settnek and Patrolman R. W. Zurcher aboard
the Pittsburgh River Patrol launch Beaver
Put ashore at: Hazelwood Avenue
Hospital: Unknown
Details: During his February 27, 1976 interview on KDKA radio, Jamieson
could not recall the name of the hospital he was taken to, but vehemently denied sharing the slightest company with Dotson
or anyone else. He stated: "No. No. I was taken by myself. I was completely separated from all of the other members of
the crew. They all left before I did because I was held in the hospital for several days."
Rank and name: Staff Sergeant Walter E. Soocey
Date of birth: July 29, 1923
Role during flight: Crew Chief
Declared dead: February 10, 1956
Cause of death: Accidental Drowning
Body recovered: May 28, 1956 9:43 AM at foot of Wood Street
Body positively identified by: Lt. Francis S. Tanzer USAF and Dog Tags
Coroner: Jules Filo
Rank and name: Master Sergeant Alfred J. Alleman
Age: 26
Role during flight: Passenger
Rescued by: Don DeVine and Lieutenant Charles Colosi
Hospital: St. Joseph Hospital
Details: Alleman swam for the south bank of the Monongahela River and was
aided ashore when Don DeVine, 32, of Alliance, Ohio, a trucker for the J. Miller Company of Cleveland and Baldwin Police Lieutenant
Charles Colosi waded in for the rescue.
Rank and name: Airman Second Class Charles L. Smith
Age: 18
Role during flight: Passenger
Rescued by: Charles Zubick towboat piloted by Captain Steven Muick
Put ashore at: American Oil Company (AMOCO) tank farm on the Carson Street
side, the south side of the Monongahela River
Hospital: Magee Hospital
Rank and name: Captain Jean P. Ingraham
Date of birth: January 17, 1927
Role during flight: Passenger
Declared dead: February 10, 1956
Cause of death: Accidental Drowning
Body recovered: April 8, 1956 11:10 AM at foot of 17th Street, South Side
Body positively identified by: Wayne L. Severson, M. D., and Captain John
C. Makan USAF, DDS
Coroner: Fred Wiehagen
