Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-27 | Page 16 | Pilot of Glider Dies Doing Loop

PILOT 1 Of GLIDER DIES DOING l LOOP OP Craft Crumples as Flier Tries Stunt Over Alameda Airport I OAKLAND Cal Calf Jan 27 Associated Associated Asso Asso- elated Press Press Lieutenant Lieutenant Norman A. A Goddard former navy flier and recently operator of a Palo Alto aviation chool achoo Is dead dud as tho rosult ro- ro suit sult of the colla collapse se of his hi glider in which he ho attempted to the loop yesterday over the Alameda airport Tho frail craft collapsed as Goddard God Cod dard Putted pulled It out of ot a u dive dl preparatory preparatory pre pre- to looping at al an nn altitude of feet Entangled ltd In the flapping flapping flap flap- nap nap- pin ping fabric of or the wings the tho pilot struggled to free himself and use ulSe his parachute hute but a n. matter u of seconds seconds sec see ends cost him his life OPENS TO TO LATE V While horrified spectators watched tho the falUn falling craft Goddard worked loose and Jumped from from- the cockpit at a height of oC ICO IGO feet His parachute para- para chuto chute opened a a. few s seconds too late to check his fall fail however howe and Goddard Goddard God God- dard plunged Into the waters of oC the the Oakland estuar estuary Ho was still alive when airport attaches reached hint him himIn In a It launch hut was pronounced dead from Crom a n. bro broken cn neck on arrival at the tho Alameda hospital Behind a a. piano piloted b by L. L F. F Hoot Root Instructor In the flying school chool Goddard and the glider of ot his own design were towed Into tho nil nir at nt Palo Alto AHo Over O the Alameda airport airport air air- port Goddard cut loose from tho the plane and sent his craft Into the dive dl that turned out to bo a a. deaths death plunge e. e Goddard had hoped to break brenk the existing worlds world's record for looping In a n. plane WIFE IN LOS ANGELES I Mrs Irs Goddard iva was in Los Angeles when the accident occurred It was wasat wasat at nt her Insistence her hu husband wore a parachute She was informed o of Goddard's death and left Los Angeles Angeles An- An An An- geles at once Goddard rd who was as 38 33 years cars old was an entrant In the Dole flight night front from hero here to Honolulu In 19 1927 7 As Asa a lieutenant In the naval reserve he designed ned and nd built his own mon- mon for tor the transpacific race With Lieutenant Kenneth Hawkins as navigator nl Goddard took off oCt for Hawaii but hut at the end of the runway runway run run- 1 way the thc plane looped ground and andI I cracked up