Hide Article Text (OCR)
FARMERS WHO LIVE in the area where the navy jet plane crashed in Castle Grove township Thursday morning and Jones County Sheriff Dreibelbis (wearing glasses at right) look over the cockpit section of the wreckage. Left to right are Francis Miller, Steve McDoneil, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cashman and Sheriff Dreibelbis. Miller watched the crash with binoculars. The navy jet plane4on the McDoneil farm. The Cashmans, Miller'and McDoneil all live within a short distarice of each other.MCDONNELL AIRCRAFT OFFICIALS from St. Louis and a naval officer were met at the Mon-ticello airport Thursday afternoon about 2 p.m. by Police Chief Donald Gilmore7~Dgv1d Cuckler (far left) and Gerald Pasker, Gilmore and Pasker are not pictured. Left to right the men are Cuckler, Paul Dunavant, McDonnell guard; Lou Niswonger, McDonnell experimental mechanic; Lt. Cdr. B. V. Turner, and Don Malvern, McDonnell chief test flight engineer (in plane). The group was driven to the crash site in cars.One Man's EXPRESSIONSvJ./Cornpicker' NicknameFor Pilotless AircraftIT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FORthe navy Demon jet to earn the new nickname of '‘Cornpicker” after it j crashed in Steve McDonellV cornfield.“Til bet that’s the fastest he (Steve) ever had his corn picked,*• one onlooker said.v:Jones-Delaware county’ line north of the crash site.An amazing feat was the maneuvering it took to drive the Hopkinton fire truck all the way to the wreckage j in time to help save some of the i burning parts from complete destruc-They ought to enter that thing tion.%in the state corn picking contest (at j O O ODyersville Oct. 12),” another remarked.An estimated three acresstanding corn stalks was knocked county came from a rock quarryto the ground, some of it buried, j Hvnamitp h#m«o nffMOST PEOPLE I TALKED TOI thought the explosion-like noises °* j heard some four miles above Jones I i COCKPIT SECTION of the crashed jet plane still was burning when this picture was taken by Francis Miller, Castle Grove farmer, shortly after the crash.HUNDREDS OF SPECTATORS rushed to the accident scene.* *to get g close-up view of the wreckage. Pictured here are the remains of the huge jet engine.--— _-----| o o ovisited with S/Sgt. Wayne King and I
Newspaper Details
Monticello Express
Monticello, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 10, 1955
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
NA, 08 Apr 2021
Other Publications Near Monticello, Iowa
Jones County Liberal
Monticello Express
