Show Crashed S. S L L. Pilot Rescued From Freezing Lake Waters t Ski-Equipped Ski Plane Succeeds In Reaching Chilled Airman By Dan Valentine James S. S B Beasley asley year old Salt Lake inspector for the Civil Aeronautics administration was taken o of of f a bleak strip of ice on the east shore of Great Salt lake Friday in a dramatic air Te rescue Tescue cue after an night all-night vigil in the cabin of his downed airplane Weary Veary parties ended their nightlong nightlong night night- long search for the missing airman after 10 am a.m. Saturday when a plane equipped with skis landed on the slush-covered slush lake edge and carried the shivering Beasley to safety Rescuer Alone The rescue was made by Spencer Crowl Growl pilot for the Charlesworth Flight service in Ogden He made the rescue flight alone and circled th the island several times before making his successful attempt toland toland to toland land and re rescue cue the missing pilot The dramatic rescue was made with the aid of the ski equipped plane jlane after trucks and boats ha had bogged jogged down in the slush of Great Salt lake When the stranded pilot greeted greet greet- ed the rescue plane shortly after 9 am a.m. Friday Mr Beasley sai saile said he le hadn't been worried adding I knew you'd find me some ome time He said that he had spent the night in the cabin of the crashed plane lane tearing the covers off oft the seats and using V them to keep warm He said that one of ot his hardest tasks was rationing his during the night all wait for help Pilot Growl Crawl was positive he could la land and d. d his sk ski equipped plane on on the ice ce ice hear near the crashed plane plan However However However How How- ever just to be on on the safe side he made a test landing and takeoff takeoff takeoff take take- off to test the ice before attempting attempting attempt- attempt ing ng the successful landing which brought Mr Beasley back to safety Lightly Dressed Mr Beasley was just returning from rom from California in his new plane when he crash landed into the lake ake He was dressed in hi typical California fashion wearing only lIght ight clothes The sleepy and cold pilot cast castone castone castone one rueful look back at his crashed plane as he stepped into the light rescue plane He said the plane Was bran brand l Nice looking ship 1 he asked smiling Mrs Carol Beasley showing the strain su-aln of an night all-night wait for word wore of ot her missing husband was at the airport to greet her husband She clutched her husband around the he neck when he crawled out 01 ot of the re rescue cue plane After the grinning grinning grinning grin grin- ning Mr Beasley finished a cup of coff coffee e he explained that this was the he first time he had ever been on the he wrong side of a rescue party I As a C CAA A A official he is usually I Ione one of the searchers The search during the night had hadeen been een hampered somewhat by a heavy snowstorm in the Salt Lake area However as soon as dawn See Page 2 Column 8 Pilot Rescued From Ice f After Afler rash Crash t Continued from front Page Pare On One broke Friday scale full rescue op orations began A A. C 47 plane from the ai air I service arrived at Hill field from Hamilton field In California to aid aieS in n the search early Friday morn morn- Ing The plane was piloted W bi Capt Richard C. C Stanton who formerly had been sta stationed aHill at a atHill Hill field and knows the Salt Lak Lake area well wen The lar large e C 47 too took off tot for Great Salt lake shortly after dawn Friday and after circling the lake several times sighted th the missing craft Capt Stanton r reported re- re ported back to Hill HiU field the cra craft was on the east shore of the lake on w what t appears to be a led of ice 6 As the search plane circled t the crashed ship Mr Beasley wave waved to the rescue plane from the cabin window We Ve accepted his haneS hand wave as an indication that be he wasn't hurt hurt Capt Stanton said sald later The cargo door of the plane couldn't be opened so the plane returned to the field loaded up with hot coffee and clothing and aneS returned to the crash location dropping the steaming hot coffee and the warm clothes to the stranded and shivering pilot While th pilot was being rescued rescued res ru cued from irom the shore of the lake by the light plane piloted by M Mr ir Crowl Growl another search party led led by y Duke Sutton Button of the C CAA A A beacon service was slowly picking its way across Great Salt lake to Antelope Island Mr Sutton Buttons party which consisted of one truck an ambulance and six volunteers vol vol- vol-f vol was following a lead that Beasley had been sighted on the the southern tip Up of the island f I H Suffers From Cold The intensive search for tor Mr r Beasley was started soon after h he landed crash-landed his piano plane in the lake Thursday about 6 30 pm p.m. Mr Beasley was able to talk tane with the Hill air force base control control con con- tower which relayed Inform tion to the Salt Lake airport control control con can tower I The pilot radioed that he wai wt waz uninjured but said he was suffer suffering ing from the cold He said he had had to stand waist deep in water to use the planes plane's radio He radioed that he could se see lee two airway beacons from his plane but he was unfamiliar with the landmarks and could not make out exactly where he was A United Air Lines pilot flying over oyer the area said he saw two flares near Antelope island islan and searchers searchers' immediately began an ani an intensive air check of that portion of the lake t The air discovery marked mark eS the end of oC a night of flying by private commercial and military aircraft A Western Vestern Air Lines plane spent several hours in the air during the night but was unable to locate the plane Snow v Hampers Sea Search h Heavy Y snowfall during the night made it almost almot impossible to pick out ground objects from the air and also led control tower operators operators opera opera- tors to warn the pilot not to try 7 to walk away from his plane Throughout the night the aerial aeria search was augmented by ground rescue parties Aiding in the search were a swamp glider owned by Dr H. H L. L Call CaU Ogden and manned by Hill air force enlisted en es- J listed men a weasel weapons I carrier earner manned by Utah highway p patrolmen members of the Bountiful Boun t jeep posse patrolmen in jeeps jeeP and volunteer searchers on horse hose back J. J E. E Johnson caretaker at th the I Burnham Duck club near Bountiful ful told searchers he heard a I I plane late Thursday He described j I the area where the plane war WU downed as being shallow water watt and swampland virtually i able except by especially adapted a equipment J r |