File:Eddie August Schneider (1910-1940) and George Wilson Herzog (1903-1940) in the Daily News of New York City, New York on 24 December 1940.jpg

DescriptionEddie August Schneider (1910-1940) and George Wilson Herzog (1903-1940) in the Daily News of New York City, New York on 24 December 1940.jpg	English: Eddie August Schneider (1910-1940) and George Wilson Herzog (1903-1940) in the Daily News of New York City, New York on 24 December 1940
Date	24 December 1940
Source	Daily News of New York City, New York on 24 December 1940
Author	Jack Turcott  (1906–1965)      Alternative names Birth name: Jacob Turcott Description American journalist and writer Date of birth/death 28 July 1906  17 June 1965  Location of birth/death Providence Scarsdale Authority file : Q105623782 creator QS:P170,Q105623782 for the New York Daily News       Alternative names Daily News; nydailynews.com; NY Daily News; Ny daily news; NYDN Authority file : Q627827 LCCN: no2013035396 ISSN: 2692-1251 OCLC: 9541172 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q627827

Coast Guardsmen work over the body of Eddie Schneider after he was pulled from wreckage of plane (left).

Cheated Death in Air Battles, Dies in Crash. By Jack Turcott. A 28-year-old flying instructor, who, as pilot for the Spanish Loyalist forces and transcontinental speed record breaker, defied death scores of times, was killed yesterday in a routine one-hour flight with a student near Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. The instructor, Edward Schneider, and his pupil, 37-year-old George W. Herzog, were drowned in Deep Creek, a small inlet off Jamaica Bay, at 1:30 P.M., a few seconds after their Piper Cub monoplane collided with a Navy biplane trainer 600 feet in the air. Witnesses said the left wing of Schneider's plane apparently struck the Navy ship's landing gear as both planes were coming down, from different directions, for a landing. Wing Falls Off. The collision forced Schneider's ship into a tailspin and as he fought to straighten his plane, the damaged wing fell off. The craft then plummeted into the creek and sank almost instantly. The Navy plane, piloted by Ensign Kenneth A. Kuehner, 25, of Minster, Ohio, with Second Class Seaman Franklin Newcomer, 25, as his passenger, landed safely. Navy officials said the ship, a Stearman biplane, suffered damage to its lower right wing, upper left wing and propeller. Screaming sirens reported the crash immediately and a Coast Guard plane took off to find the wreckage. A Coast Guard cutter began grappling and soon lifted the monoplane to the surface. Both Schneider and Herzog were still in their seats. They were hurried to the deck of a partly-submerged barge nearby, where a physician pronounced them dead after attempts at artificial resuscitation. Herzog, father of two children, was a builder, according to officials of the Archie Baxter Flying Service, for whom Schneider worked. Schneider, who began flying at 16, was one of the nation's most adventuresome pilots. On August 18, 19, 20, when he was 18, he set a new junior speed record of 29 hours, 41 minutes for a flight from Westfield, New Jersey, to Los Angeles. A week later he broke two more records for the eastward flight across the country. (Other pictures on page 1)

• Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940)
• George Wilson Herzog (1903-1940)
• Ensign Kenneth Adolph Kuehner (1915-1984) of Minster, Ohio
• Second Class Seaman Franklin Newcomer (1915-1994) of Rochester, Ohio

• Boeing-Stearman Model 75
• Piper J-3 Cub

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