Clackamas-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Green, Unknown June 1921
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Clackamas County News June 30,1921
Aviator Killed and Student Injured
Edward Rabick,student fluer of Stafford,received a severe shock,causeing loss 
of memeory,and injuries to the head when a Curtiss plane owned by himself and 
piloted by Green,who was killed crashed to the ground in a tailspin from a 
height of about 75 feet at the links last wednesday afternoon
Rabick,who had control of the machine just before the accident occurred says 
that Green sent word to him through the speaking tube to let go of the control 
as he was going to take charge.Rabick did so,and the aeroplane immediatley 
went into a nose dive .It is Rabick's opinion that Green has spoken before he 
was ready to take charge
According to avaiators of the oregon Washington and Idaho Aeroplane company,in 
whose hangars Rabick's machine was kept,and from whom it had been 
purchased,neither green nor Rabick were qualified to fly a plane and that they 
remostrated when Rabick had demanded to be allowed to fly without an 
instructor,and when green had removed the machine to East Mooreland.
Archie Roth,ex army avaitor and a member of the new avaiation commission 
appointed by the Governor Olcott,examined the wrecked plane and found all the 
controls open which indicates that the motor was running  at the time the 
accident occurred and it is his belief that Green became confused and had lost 
control of the craft.
Rabick was taken to the Sellwood hospital and Green to the St Vincent's where 
he died before gaining consciousness.Rabick has since returned to his home in 
the Stafford District

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