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Show Hanksville Plane Crash Claims Life ! By Barbara Ekker , The wreckage of a Beech-craft Beech-craft Bonanza airplane was found at noon Thursday, Aug. H, 500 yards east of the ; Hanksville FA A Airport where t crashed two days previous, it is assumed. The craft was piloted by 60 year old Theo Woods of Mesa, Ariz., who was on a three hour fl'ght Aug. 12 to Price. When failed to arrive in Carbon County, his wife in Arizona was informed and a CAP search begun in that State. Mr. Woods was alive b u t semi-consciousness when he was discovered by Butch. Bullard, John Herron, and Ray Lyman as they passed the wreckage site in a high cabbed truck. They administered oxygen ox-ygen from the plane and sent for the ambulance at Hanksville, Hanks-ville, but Mr. Woods died before the ambulance arrived. He had crawled from the cockpit of the craft and around the plane and was sheltered under the left wing He was wearing only his shorts and had been applying drain pads to an incision in his abdomen from quite recent surgery. Harold Broadhead and Wilber Parker arrived to make an investigation for the FAA and the National Transportation Trans-portation Safety Board who'll piece all the evidence together and come up with a reason for this tragic accident. ! ' . j Pi'ot Theo Wood, 60, Mesa, Arizona, died shortly after being discovered near this downed ' aircra'f just a short distance from the Hanksville FAA Airport last weekend. |