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Show Two Escape Injury In Plane CrackUp At Local Airport A plane nosing into a plowed cornfield, and ripping out two. barbed wire fences before coming com-ing to rest on the edge of the runway, stirred excitement at I the Roosevelt airport last Sun-'day. Sun-'day. The ship's pilot, Bob Andrews, An-drews, and one passenger, J. C. Zimmerman, escaped injury despite des-pite the fact that the plane, after immediate survey, was declared a total wreck. The Roosevelt Flying Service, owners of the plane, stated that Andrews, holder of a private pilUL 3 nvvnv, r-i runway from the east preparatory prepara-tory to landing. But the plane, instead of setting down, swerved away from the landing strip, and with nose down hit the ground in a freshly plowed cornfield, and bounded through two barb wire fences before coming to a StMr. Andrews, after emerging 1 from the wreck, explained that las he made his approach'to land I h sun's ravs struck him square ly in the face, temporarily blinding blind-ing him. By the time he had regained re-gained his sight and equalibrum, the ship was well on its way toward to-ward the freshly plowed field, and it was Impossible to gain altitude. Flying Service officials who described the crack-up as a near catastrophe, reported that damage dam-age to the plane was tremendous. Both wings were crumpled, the landing gear was torn off, the propellor bent beyond repair, and the fuselage badly twisted. Damage to the engine has not been determined. |