Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-12 | Page 17 | Speedboat Ace Cracks Plane

I IN ACCIDENT S a. a V Gar Wood I SPEEDBOAT ACE CRACKS PLANE Ship Noses Over in Landing Pilot Escapes Injury DETROIT Jan 12 Gar JP-Gar Jar Woods Wood's airplane nosed over on the ground at athe atthe atthe the he Marysville Mich airport and was damaged late Thursday but the famous famous famous fa fa- speedboat builder and pilot was uninjured Wood flying alone was landing at athe atthe atthe the he airport to inspect several speedboats speed speed- boats oats and md was coming to a stop when the he wheels sank through ice fee that covered covered covered cov cov- ered a low spot on the field The plane went over slowly and apiece a apiece piece was broken out of the propeller but ut that was about all the damage Wood said upon his return by automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile to his home in It felt like going down in the Miss America up It was one of those things a pilot has to go through before he becomes a real one I suppose Wood said Wood said he was going only about 10 miles an hour He said he simply sat tight waiting to see what would happen lappen next It was Gar Woods Wood's second plane mishap in the last six months Last August before the Harmsworth race he 10 was forced to set down his amphibian am amphibian in Lake St St. Clair when engine engine en en- gine trouble developed He looted floated d several hours hours' before he was rescued