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Show Fatal Mishap Here Being Investigated Details have not yet been confirmed about the circumstances circum-stances surrounding the crash of a light plane up beyond C resent res-ent Ridge in Park City last Wednesday. It was a small National Guard plane that was involved the pilot was killed and the observer ob-server was eventually removed by helicopter to aSalt Lake City hospital and at last report was in good condition. The question unanswered is why was the plane in the area? Was it simply on a training flight or was it searching for a jeep, truck or car that had been reported earlier to have "rolled over one mile from Park City"? The caller reported "my buddy is dead" . . . and t h e n all communication ceased. Conflicting reports and rumors surround that call which came over a citizen's band radio early Wednesday. The Park City Ambulance crew combed the area and could find no "wreck"; the Summit County Sheriff's Patrol men searched to no avail; and there were 3 helicopters that flew low over the mountain all afternoon. after-noon. The crash of that National Guard plane was a tragedy, of course, but it was even more so if that phone call in the morning was a hoax! |
