Alexander Onassis, Only Son Of the Magnate, Dies of Injuries – The New York Times

ATHENS, Jan. 23 — Alexander Onassis, the 24‐year‐old only son of Aristotle Onassis, the multimillionaire, died in hospital here of a brain hemorrhage tonight, 27 hours after his plane crashed at the Athens airport.

His father and stepmother, Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis, flew in from New York with a leading Boston surgeon. Also present at the bedside were his mother, who recently married her sister’s widower, Stavros Niarchos, regarded as Mr. Onassis’s chief business and social rival, and his sister Christina, 22, who flew in from Brazil.

The two‐engined amphibian Piaggio crushed during takeoff yesterday. Alexander was planning to try out a new American pilot, Donald McCusker, for the fleet or air taxis he operated in Greece. Mr. McCusker was seriously injured, but the third occupant of the four‐seater, Donald McGregor, the 58‐year‐old pilot whom Mr. McCusker was to succeed, was reported to be recovering.

Alexander was born in Newl York April 30, 1948, the day his father launched an 18,000‐ton tanker, the biggest then built in the United States. Five years later the youth launched in Germany a 45,000‐ton tanker, the Tina Onassis, ‐tamed after his mother.