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PILOT HURTtPLANE MISHAPd Student Flier Lands With 6eAABump In Cornfield NearSugar Grove RunekaidimRogers, 25, mechanic at Y Raven Rock airport, is one of thefew pilots to crash in a flat spin nc and live to tell about his expc rience. ,Rogers crashed In a field about \ 3 2:30 p. m, Sunday from an alU tude of 1,000 feet. He is in Ports mouth General hospital suffering j ta from a lacerated forehead,eyes, face. nose, lips, loose teeth and body bruises. He suffered from loss of blood and r« shock. Dr. W. E. Gault attended : Q«rlt;Mr. Rogers, who is a student ji was flying one of a group ; of planes that planned to fly over the Citv in formation'durmg theis1 tlwlloFlag day exercises. uThe planes took off headed west and when Rogers reached | ^ 1,000 feet he attempted to make a vertical bank to head back toward Portsmouth.“When I started motor stalled/’ Mr. Rogers said,“and the plane went into a flat spm. I used every means pos- j U sible in an effort to right the plane, but nothing would stop the spin. I believe I was coming out it when it bumped the ground.“That’s all 1 remember. And now I’m anxious to get out of a this bed and back into a plane to ; „utltif*start all over again.The plane crashed on the Daul- vton Brothers farm in a cornfield , about a mile south of route 52. The undercarriage was “washef out” and the propeiler wassmashed. The lower wings were damaged.Mr. Rogers was unconscious when lifted from the plane by occupant of a passing car.Ora Liming, manager of the airport, said the plane was reconditioned recently and was inMvntigood condition. He said an ab-lt; normal air current from Sugar ! r.rnv* run vallev oossiblv causedna.Sthe crash. jMr. Rogers' home is in Mon- J anrah. W. Va.. and he has beenemployed at the airport for thelast year.a «j mi it ATrn
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Portsmouth Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 15, 1936
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