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Show ARMY AVIATORS FAIUN RECORD PLANE CRASHES IN MUD FLATS FOLLOWING TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN AIR Second Attempt to Break All En. durance Marks Ends Unsuccessfully; Un-successfully; Expect to Try Again San Diego, Cal. The airplane car. lying Captain Lowell H. Smith and Lietenant J. B. Richter, army aviators in their attempt to remain in the air four days and four nights, crashed into the mud flats between Coronado and North island at about 4:40 a. m. Friday. It was reported by telephone from Rockwell field that neither of the aviators had been seriously injured. According to officers, the aviators were trying to make a safe landing, a dense fog having made further progress pro-gress impossible. Thus they remained in the air twenty-four hours almost to the minute. min-ute. They took off Thursday morning morn-ing at 4.46:43. It was their second unsuccessful attempt within two days to remain in the air long enough to break all endurance records. Wednesday they made their first start, but the burning out of a generator forced them down without mishap, however in less than six hours. |