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HurtasCraftFalls in FlamesAt Parachute ShowF.L CENTRO (API — Nine persons were killed Tuesday and at least 20 others injured — six critically — when a twin-jet Na\y bomber crashed in flames at a Navy air field during aparachuting show.The A3D attack bomber had just dropped the 25.000th man to parachute at the El Centro Air Facility. As the ’chutist floateddown, the jet swooped low for a pass o\cr hundreds of spectators.was weeping and bloinj wasAs the 'chutist touched the ■ » — — -ground not far away the A3I) runnng down my face.” faltered, lost altitude, hit a T,1c bomber came apart in power line, and broke apart in air after bitting \ pow*r the air. hurling flaming wreck- bne. witnesses said Said one age and jet fuel across the cen- enlisted man:“The right wing clipped theings.1 Iter of the base. ~w ,, The three occupants still in power pole and flew into the the plane died. So did five other main administration budding, men. most of them Navy per- ^ engine disconnected from sonncl trapped in blazing*build- lhe wing and went into thechapel — and still had enoughWomen and children were sPccd to break out and bounce among the injured. Said M. down parking lot, smashing Sgt. Charles M. Moody, 49: cars.”“I saw the plane hit. . and The Navy f,ew additional due-I ran. Debris hit me from be- ,ors and medica! ''crpstnen inhind and I was knocked down ” from ^ Dle8°' 115 mi,es westMoody said he blacked out and of here The field is l,sed for when he came to: several purposes, chief among ___• them the testing and develop-Women were running fcross men, , D.rarhu,es ^the street through the burning An n Y theal with I heir hair on fire. A airl‘ ,leW f,ve nf ,he!critically hurt victims to San...v« V.U.U.CI nere scream-jDiego for treatment.ing and there was nothing 1ThenAmong those seriously hurtlt;Continu#d on Pan*
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Eureka Humboldt Times
Eureka, California, US
Wed, Oct 28, 1964
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