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2 Persons KilledIn Plane CrashMillard (AP) — Two Omaha men, including the head pilot of a Millard-based aviation company, were killed Friday morning when their light plane crashed and burned in a bean field west of Omaha.The Douglas County Sheriff’s Department identified the dead as Roger Clement, about 30, a pilot for Husker Aviation, and Robert Maeder, 24.Authorities said it was not immediately known who was piloting the plane, which apparently lost power and went into a spin before the crash.The plane, a single-engine Cherokee 140 owned by Husker, was flown out of Millard airport Friday morning, said Larry Neumann, a pilot for the company.Federal Aviation Administration FAA investigators were dispatched from Lincoln to probe the wreckage for clues as to the cause of the crash. The investigators arrived on the scene about mid-afternoon and cordoned off the area.Although there were no official reports, there were several eyewitness accounts of the crash.Rick Iske, 17, of Millard, was in a field about one-quarter mile south of the crash scene, andsaid he was working in a combine when he heard “a plane engine sputter.”“It took me a while to find it up in the air because it waswhite, and kind of hard to see,and a when I found it in the sky it was in a spin, and I thought is was an aerobatic or something,” Iske said.Iske told newsmen that the plane kept diving until it was under 500 feet in the air, and then “I knew it wasn’t going to come out of it.”As Iske ran to find help, he said he heard an explosion, and looked back to where the planehad just dropped behind a hill.“When it hit I could see the smoke in the air,” Iske added.Jack Allwine, who operates a kennel nearby, arrived on crash scene just after the crash.“The plane was just a mass of flames when we got there,” Allwine said.Allwine said the whole center of the plane was burnt out, and that the only things left were the ends of the wings, the tail and the front of the craft where the motor is located.Mrs. John Kuel, a housewife living near the crash scene, was credited with phoning for help.
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Lincoln Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jul 06, 1974
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