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WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY     (Washington County, Utah)

WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PHOTO COLLECTION

Photo WCHS-01098

WCHS-01098 Article about the Backman/Cox/Thompson airplane accident

Newspaper article from the Deseret News about Gus Backman (credit manager for ZCMI) surviving a 1924 airplane accident in Kanab, Utah. Also in the plane when it wrecked were Warren Cox (St. George resident) and Tommy Thompson (the pilot).

See the associated photo of the three men with the tail section of the wrecked airplane.

The article was scanned by Lorna Cox Wood and
contributed by Sandra Barton Gwilliam on 8/20/2011.