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Volume LXXXX, Number 81Monticello, Iowa, Monday, October 10, 19558 Pages this Issue: * ■ ■, i .#• ..-- # . • • * *'r . »* * *t ? %r ■«B1.• r. ♦% ji* *f •m■v J ' 1-----V. ': v ”' £//• 'K.' • ilitvii'i' v.'?.■ .!-’■■ -■!'-' ^ £-■'..'I”- ✓ ■ ■'•■'-..1■THIS HOLE WAS DUG by the nose of the pilofless navy Demon jet plane when it crashed in a cornfield on the Steve McDonell farm ejght miles northwest of Monticello Thursday about 10 a.m. One observer said it hit with a sickening thud/'AFTER CRASHING at an estimated 500 miles an hour the jet plane plowed through severalacres of cornstalks up a slight incline in the field for nearly a quarter of a mile. This picture shows the path, some 60 feet wide, which the run-away plane formed as it shot along the ground. The point of impact is indicated by the arrow in the background.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.Successful HuntFor 'Black Boxr1AA crew of six navy men from Glenview. III., Saturday morning started doing in an officer capacity -what thousands of persons^S^tH®,^ cello vicinity .and eastern^^SK^|^^; been tempted to - do as•. sigh souvenir hunters since Thursday^• * • f * * ' ( .• ’l- r' /. i • 1morning when a jet fighter pittitej crashed with no pilot at the c6htrdl -in a Castle Grove township corn field; about eight miles northwest of Monti- * cello. ..The Glenview naval air station m*?a were picking up the pieces which scattered over a three-acre area dm
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Monticello Express
Monticello, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 10, 1955
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