University of Maine graduate and textile sales executive with Burlington Industries, Fleming was on his way White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with colleague William N. McQueen, who also perished in the crash.
Then a bachelor in his early thirties, Fleming had been living in London Terrace, a New York apartment building that was the world’s largest when built in the 1930s. The New York Times listed his parents as Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fleming of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.