None Hurt as Blimp Crashes on Landing

A Goodyear blimp was blown into a pole and ripped in half as it tried to land, sending the cockpit carrying a pilot and six passengers skidding along the ground. No one was injured. The blimp had just touched the ground at Northeast Philadelphia Airport with about 10 people tugging on mooring ropes from the nose when a gust of wind blew the airship about 20 feet, lifting one of the men off the ground. The pilot started the engines and tried to avoid the 40-foot-high red mooring mast. A Goodyear official said the blimp was a total loss.