Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-28 | Page 3 | 4 Killed in Plane Crash

4 KILLED ANE IN CRASH Designer of Monoplane Perishes With Family LOS ANGELS'S July Four 28 28 Four were ere killed almost Instant Instant- Instantly Instantly ly Jy when the tho new cAbin cohin monoplane crash crashed d to the ground at a commercial air port here Sun Sun- Sunday Sun Sunday day after beginning an nn e flight In the presence of o hundreds of spectators The Tho dead Osmond Belcher Beicher de- de designer designer de designer signer and builder of the plane his wife Ife their 8 old 8 8 1 old ear son and Burge Burgess who ho was nas as piloting the craft All were aero ero riding in the plane piano I Mrs rs Belcher Bolcher had but a n ten few mo- mo moI moments mo moments I ments before th the accident chris chrls- christened I t ned the monoplane which was built mainly of o woven wo wood and composition cardboard and embodIed embodied led other new principles of con con- construction con construction which made today's toda's 5 trial flight of particular Interest to avia a avia- avia aviation tion fion ion gathered at the fI field ld The ship took th the air nicely and guided it once oneo around the field the occupants waving gaily to their fl lends on the ground The monoplane had made on One circuit of the field and had at- at at attained tamed a speed of about an hou hour r when shen hen it suddenly crashed to earth Spectators rushed to the wrecked plane and extricated the victims from the splintered cabin but all nil four tour were either dead or dying by the time thy were nero car car- carI car I led to 10 automobiles and hurried to Los Les Angeles Witnesses varied In their estl- estl esti estimates mates of ot the tho altitude attained by bythe the plane before it till fill but agreed It was not more than GOO COO feet Aviators A t present expressed d the opinion that the cause of th acci nce- acci- acci accident dentas dent was sas a defect detect in the control mechanism of the movable tip tips The ship crashed nn- nn