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mmA crew of six navy men from Glenview, III, Saturday morning started doing in an offLci|L capacity -what thousands of person cello vicinity -and easternf: been tempted to do as sigh souvenir hunters since Thursday-morning when a jet fighter IplMite crashed with no pilot at the cdntrjofein a Castle Grove township cornfieldabout eight miles northwest of Montl^ cello. ..* ' * t ^ *' ■ nThe Glenview naval air statfon ni?» were picking up the pieces whichscattered over a three-acre area lt;«a* .. •' * • •the Steve McDonell farm on county road A near the Gastle Grove Tm~ maculate Conception church.The navy salvage group arrived at the crash site Friday afternoon-from Glenview with three trucks..Lt. Cdr. C. R. Pingrey, in chargeof the crew, said he and his men would load the scattered pieces of' metal, rubber* plastic and other materials and take them back to Glenview.“We don’t know where it (the collection of salvaged parts) will go from there,” Lt. Cdr. Pingrey told the Express. The navy men. hired a local crane to load the heaviest pieces.HUNT FOR “BLACK BOX”Apparently the most valuable part of the single-jet airplane, at least* as far as the machine’s manufacturer,. McDonnell Aircraft corporation of St. Louis, Mo., was concerned, was salvaged, •►As soon as representatives of McDonnell Aircraft arrived at the crash scene Thursday afternoon, a search was immediately begun for a “black: box.” /The, “magazine” from this, black box. :was found along the crash path soon after the search was begun...- Don Malvern, - chief flight test engineer, explained that the magazine contained recording instruments which were set to operate constantly during the flight test.V It was believed that the recordskept by the recording mechanism might tell McDonnell Aircraft technicians exactly what mechanical fail-COCKPIT SECTION (foreground), huge jet engine (behind cockpit), and tail assembly (out of picture at left) landed more than 1,000 feet from the point of impact. Navy men from Dubuque reserve training station look over wreckage.jten Demon Corn fieldRequest by OfficerAn urgent request that any: camera or recording equipment found at the scene of the navy jet crash in Castle Grove township be delivered to the Monticello Express office was announced Thursday by Lt. Cdr. B. V. Turner of the naval unit attached to the McDonnell Aircraft- corporatioo*St. Loius.He asked the cooperation of this newspaper in finding recording equipment which may have bees* lost in the jet crash.ures. if any, prevented the test pilot from pulling it out of a lest spin: and forced him to bail out at an* altitude of 24,000 feet near Carrollton, 111.All flight test recording equipment” apparently was not found immediately, however. A naval officer in charge of the investigation requested reporting of any such equipment to the Monticello Fix press or navy personnel.LAND AT LOCAL AIRPORTMalvern flew to Monticello from St. Louis in a four-place plane and landed at the municipal airport here. He was accompanied by Lt. Cdr. B. V. Turner, a naval officer; Lou Niswonger. a McDonnell Aircraft experimental mechanic, and Paul Duna-vant, a McDonnell guard who policed the crash site. The four men returned to St. Louis following a lengthy investigation.They were met at the airport here by . Police Chief Donald Gilmore; Fred Tlinks, Express news editor; David Cuckler and Gerald Paxfcer. both local pilots. Cuckler alerted Civil Aeronautics administration officials when the crash was reported and then he and Pasker flew to the wreckage site and landed in a nearbv pasture. Gilmore arranged car transportation to the scene of the crash for the four men from St. Louis.tl k i-U ter Cc untc,Omtth
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Monticello Express
Monticello, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 10, 1955
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