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Show Missing C. A. P. Pilot Located Near Delta A three weeks' search for Carl A. Nelson, Salt Lake CAP pilot who mvf:riou.ly (dieappearel while on a routine flight from Salt Lake to Cedar City March 20, ended Tuesday when a searching party found the body of the 30-year-old flier pinned under thi wing of his plane on the sandhills 12 miles northwe.t of Delta. The plane was sighted first by Clark Huff of Fillmore, government govern-ment trapper, who saw the tail of the plane Jutting from the ground. Mr. Huff Immediately returned to Delta, where a party ot six, including in-cluding Deputy Sheriff John Bennett Ben-nett of Delta, was formed, and returned re-turned to the wrecked plane. Mr. Nelson was found with his legs pinned underneath a wing of the small, maroon-colored plan, his body Mumped over the win?. He had apparently lived for some time after being thrown from the plane, as his gloves and goggles had been carefully removed. He had wiped hi; face with his scarf, but both legs were broken and he apparently was unable to struggle free from the craft. Mr. Nelson's watch and the plane's clock had stopped precisely precise-ly nt 2:01 p. m., Just one minute after he had ween scheduled to arrive ar-rive at the Delta airport. The "Culver Cadet" type of plane was equipped only with a reviving re-viving radio set and could not have radioed its position, Investigators Investi-gators said. Nelson had piloted the plane for COO flying hours and a; n second lieutenant was rated a-mong a-mong the top fliers in the Utah CAP group. He had been a member mem-ber of the organization since 1940 and was currently flying courier service for the government. Active in the search for the flier were 30 planes and more than 300 men, who covered an area of nearly near-ly 30,000 miles during the 21 -day search for the pilot. |