Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-13 | Page 2 | Quick Thinking Prevents Mail Airplane Crash

Quick Thinking Prevents Mail fai Airplane Crash Quick thinking of men at the Rawlins Wyo air mall mail a 11 landing field and on the part rt of Aviator Collison Col- Col lison of ot the air mail mall service averted cOI 1 a smashup of an airplane and possible possible possible pos pos- sible injuries injuries- to Collison n yesterday yester lestr est r- r I day When Collison took off at Cheyenne Cheyenne Cheyenne Chey Chey- enne field yesterday one of Qt the wheels of his landing gear was broken and dropped from the plane Collison proceeded on his flight without knowledge of the damage On preparing to land at Rawlins he was attracted by a landing gear which had been dragged onto the landing field and by y motions of the themen themen themen men on the field who managed to come convey to him that the landing gear bear of his plane was damaged Carefully Carefully Carefully Care Care- fully calculating the list of ot the plane pIano he skill skillfully tully landed lande on the remaining wheel The Rawlins I field had been notified of the trouble trou ble by wire wiro from the Cheyenne trou-I trou field