GRIM FIND.
HUGE AIR LNIER’S END. Burned and twisted with the scorched bodies of its eight occupants scattered over a wide area, the huge transcontinental American ’plane, City. of San Francisco, which disappeared during a raging thunderstorm, lias been found. George Rice, pilot of the Western Air Express, traversing the summit of the Rocky Mountains, 20 miles north of Grant (New Mexico), was appalled by the sight of the twisted wreckage of the great aeroplane scattered over several acres of rocky landscape. Rice soon landed in Albuquerque, and, within an hour. 40 searching ’planes and hundreds of Indian trackers were called in from the greatest hunt ever known in the western “bad lands.” Pilot Stowe was evidently caught in a storm, and was whirling along at his fullest speed, trying to cross the peak of Mount Taylor, when he crashed into the rocky ledge. Another 500 feet of altitude would have saved him and the seven others aboard. Exploding in flames, the maimed * ’plane bounced back to fall 200 feet from the perpendicular face of the mountain wall. Everyone aboard was probably killed in the first crash, ana the charred bodies were scattered over a wide area.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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197GRIM FIND. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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