Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-25 | Page 5 | Broken Plane is Guided to Earth

I I PLANE IS GUIDED GUIDD TO EARTH fARI Endurance Flight Champion Champion Cham Coain pion Saves Lives of Girl Passengers MINEOLA MIN OLA N. N Y April 25 A 1 tj The steady hand of Clarence D. D D Chamberlin which h guided an im airplane airplane air aIr- plane to a new n nOw w worlds world's endurance record record today day was was was' credited with having snatched four lives from death death Guiding the breaking record Wright Bellanca monoplane to a safe landing after the landing gear pad had been broken Ch Chamberlin brought himself a mechanic and two girl Irl passengers to earth tin tin- harmed Five Fhe thousand persons Including the parents of the girls gIrR watched the feat leat after the mechanic mechanic John C Ca k nat rIsi had made a futile tUe attempt In midair to o repair the repair the landing gear Jear T The e girls were Eloyse Levine 9 year old daugh daughter tel of Charles Chares A A. A Le- Le Levine vine president of the Columbia Air Aircraft c craft ft company owners of the plane and Grace Jonas 15 15 daughter of Ralph Ralpl Jonas Jonas president t of t the Brooklyn chamber of of commerce commerce sponsors for for the planes plane's projected ed nonstop flight from New York to Paris The TIle plan had j just jOst st been een christened Columbia by l Chamberlin Cham Cham- berlin who with Bert Acosta Acost co copilot copilot co Ce pilot on the record breaking flight flight- stands an an equal chan e. e him jp p hopping of off for tor Paris in Iri t the e plane piano took off oft On test oiva-test a test flight As' As the plane plan rose above the field observers observer's noticed the the- broken land Jand lr ing g. g ge gear r Seven planes took took- ta to th thair the theIr theair e air Ir to o warn the a The ie pilot et t pf one held aloft lort a a. landing anding wheel the the signal that there was danger r in attempting to toland land As the plan plane e re circled the ft field ld CarisI hanging banging head downward with Chamberlin holding his his' legs his l gs attempted to ri rig ti g up a temporary landing lauding gear This This' effort failing f Chamberlin v the field an h ur until l an ambulance e had arrived for possible ble us use and began the descent Slowly the plane lane iane d descended d t to o Mitchol field As it struck th the e earth it careened c and the left win wing eg g was smashed l but the pilot the he mechanic me nie and their young charges charge S stepped out uninjured After the the- damage to o the the- plane plan ha had been been examined b by C C. C M. M Bel Beli Ianca its designer and L Levine they the y announced that the start of th the e proposed trans trans t would woul d. d not be d delayed l ed This has been bee n tentatively set for Thursday