Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-12-28 | Page 1 | Plane Crackup in Indiana Kills 2, Hurts 19

Plane Cracltup In Indiana iills2,HiirIs19 MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., Dec. 28 (UP) Twoj persons were killed and 19 injured Saturday when the pilot of an American Airlines plane stricken with engine trouble tried to make a crash landing in a huge flower garden but smashed into a grove of trees Instead." With Its motors silent, the big plane pointed its nose toward the International Friendship Garden, once offered as a site for United Nations. Witnesses said they saw it suddenly plow Into treetops In an adjoining- trove, smashing; to the ground, a few hundred feet from the garden. The wings were sheared off and the tall assembly demolished as the DC-3 two-engine plane cut a path 300 feet long through the treetops. The nose was smashed as It struck the ground, killing the pilot and copilot Coroner Russell Week said the plane was seen nosing toward the huge outdoor flower display near the shores of take Michigan by two employes of a sand company and by a truck driver. No one saw the actual crash, however. The pilot! Capt Frank Hamm. Bridgeport .Conn., was killed intently. in-tently. His copilot Harmon K. Ring, Muscatine, Is, died In a hospital.