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Show PLANE CRACKS UP; FLIER HURT VANCOUVER, B C, Aug. 12. ir.f!) Anot her attempt to make an ocean crossing had failed today as a result of the crash of the plane Pacific Era in which Bob Wark and Eddie Brown hoped to fly from Tacoma, Wash, to Tokyo, Japan. The big Fokker ship was badly damaged as Wark attempted to set it down at Ladner Field yesterday. At first believe'! only slightly injured, in-jured, Wark today was reported to have incurred a cracked neck vertebra, verte-bra, torn ligaments in his left arm and leg, and a dislocated jaw. Biown, who did not accompany Wark from Vancouver to Lidner Field, said it was a miracle that the flier was not buined to death. The gasoline tanks burst when the plane clashed, and Wark and the ship were saturated with the fuel, he declared. |