If Mayor Victor H. Schiro hadn't finished some city business by working last weekend, it's likely he would have been on the DC-8 jet that plunged into Lake Pontehartrain, his wife speculated Wednesday aft-speculated Wednesday after-ernoon.
However, he completed the work and left New Orleans earlier to sign some bonds in New York, Mrs. Schiro said as she and her husband visited the scene of search operations.
The mayor returned from New York about 1 p. m., spent two hours in his office before embarking on the cabin cruiser of Aviation Board chairman H. T. "Monte" Shaiett to visit the scene.
At the scene, he conferred with the coroner, Dr. Nicholas P. Chetta, and expressed confidence that searchers eventual-
ly will find more wreckage and determine what c a u s e d the crash.
Among those on the inspec-;ion with Mayor and Mrs. Schiro and Shaiett were city Civil Defense director Charles W. Erdmann and a Civil Defense board member, Edwin
iolton.
