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Seattle Glider Pilot Crashes

 

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The Daily Review
Hayward, California
December 15, 1967


CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, Ore. (UPI) - A Seattle pilot crash-landed his glider on the east slope of Crater Lake Thursday while attempting to set a long distance soaring record from Rainier, Wash., to Mt. Shasta, Calif.

The pilot, Cecil M. Craig, apparently was not injured. He brought the craft down on a field of deep powder snow between the rim of the Lake and Scott Mountain.

Craig was spoiled by Rex Morehouse, a Klamath Falls pilot. A sleeping bag and rations were dropped in the area.

Rescue parties in three snow cats were expected to reach Craig today.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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