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;’4 \- ■.- VV * ., /-■•N• i'-l■ . ’/r■'.\ci}bAthe airlines* Flight 320 out of Chicago. The Civil Aeronautics Board said the jet was making a “stan-Officers DieIy 8 of5B died r Little Airlines Angeles the by-In Crash ofJet Bomberomeanelumber of dents and 3 or were ;n the New srican Air^smg were: 3, Chicagowho eon-U glass -^ake Shoreexecutive ions, who19, of Chi-of Vogue►2, of Chi-ker-Adams59, High-» operatorn, 39, of us Wilson, 4den # Gate n Europe. , and his12, former*: Westport, ormer edi-[eant mag-LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD-The Air Force today pressed its investigation into the crash of a B47 jet bomber here which killed three officers. The plane hit withsuch force that all emergency crews could find “were bits of fingers and four burned parachutes.**The plane dived into the ground about 25 miles northeast of Little Rock Air Force Base Tuesday night. The terrain was so bad it took the first crew two hours to reach the site.One group of sheriff’s deputies was lost in the woods for two hours hunting for the wreckage, which was scattered over a quarter of a mile.On Return FlightThe plane was returning from a training flight and had entered its final landing approach when “something went wrong,** Air Force officials said.A weekly newspaper editor, Cone Magifc, from nearby Cabot, Ark., *said “the area where the plane went down looked like a junkyard.**The Air Force identified the dead as Capt. Charles W. Stevens Jr., 41, the aircraft commander, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs, Charles W. Stevens, live at 707 Ann Street, Beaufort, N.C.; Capt. Robert S. McCoy, 34, the co-pilot, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jackson, live at 4007 Oak Drive, Des Moines, Iowa; and 1st Lt. J. W. Smith, 24, the navigator, whose mother, Mrs. Sandra Louise Vary, lives at 248-04 VanZandt Ave., Little Neck, N.Y.The B47 six-jet plane belonged to the 545th Bomb Squadroh of the 384th Bomb Wing at the Strategic Air Command base here,iwo jriuidead was , 33, of LaThe plane into the river broke apart about 26 feet vivor said h had made se^ field before CAB stateme of any unsu tempts.It appcarccause of the a U.S. made in the Unite be determine a CAB inve begun immec “There w* pieces of wrcPhelps, co-csH. Thomaspart of the fi were perchec hauled them so, a hand \ in the wreck the fuselage men yanked hooks but c Then, the fu away from t hand d i s a \ stopped.“If only. tl around, mor been saved.’ Many Tr; * One of the old Robert stead, N.Y., and two sistlt; Seymour I who helped the plane, , were rescue ‘I guess they Like he crt of the week, Robert’s nSullivan, w water alive reaching a Most the i trapped in Attempts toing derrick pected to bi afternoon.What was nose wheel off the Bron Police salva plane, incluc ing gear, scene also floating evic
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Galesburg Register Mail
Galesburg, Illinois, US
Wed, Feb 04, 1959
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