Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — ACE LANDIS FALLS IN PLANE [ARTICLE]

ACE LANDIS FALLS IN PLANE

Machine Crashes to Ground, but thd Occupants Are Unhurt. Atlantic City, N. J., May 9. —Pilot Gardner, formerly of the United States mail aerial service, while making a flight with Maj. Reed Landis, second American ace, crashed to the ground at the flying field, but both occupants ot the craft escaped Injury The plane was tuning up for a flight to New York, and when close to the ground on the descent the engine de ▼eloped trouble. Both men crawle< out of the wreckage without assist! ance and while somewhat bruiaet >wefb uninjured.