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16CORPUS CHRIST! TIMES, Mon., March 30, 1959Military PlaneCrashes Costly18,000 Accidents in 5$3By JACK RAYMOND((♦Urtrtt l*SJ. Xew l'*rfc UntilWASHINGTON. - Military air-craft accidents have cost the United States more than 3 billion dollars in five years, official figures Indicated today.In that time there were more than 15,000 accidents, many ofwhich were considered minor.pared with 221 at the same time last year.Five crew members of the plane, from Little Rock Air Force Base, jumped to safety, while the aircraft crashed and burned atop Petit Jean Mountain.As of last Monday, there had been 93 fatalities in military air-and more than 5.000 fatalities, most of them, to crews and passengers.Data on military aircraft accidents were made available at the Pentagon in response to inquiries at each of the military departments. The statistics did not include accidents this year.Air Force RecordHowever, art Air Force spokesman noted that the Air Force, r hkh flies most of the military planes, may have its best record at the end of this year.The crash of a six-engine B-47 je: bomber in Arkansas last Tues-da craftcraft accidents so far this year.compared to 159 in the same period last year.B « Called SafeThe Air Force spokesman said the B-l? is one of our safest planes. He said the plane, when new in 1936, cost about 51-9 million, but the one that crashed was not worth that amount today.Accident figures for miUtaryand commercial flying: are not comparable, experts at the Pentagon and the Civil AeronauticsCONSSwed.consuspace:AprilComrrDEBoard pointed out.ft would be wrong to consider! Frcdci that there has been a high toll ini v , money, lives and Hying accidents L ^ j was the lS3rd Air Force air- compared to commercial lines, onf-Tift accident this year, com- the basis of available figures of-li tcficials said. ’ Catholic A significant reason given was LT-?Pk U the difference in the kind of Gy-* e uU. S.Continued from Tare 1ing involved. Service aircraft arclor the most part high speed yt« , .. . comb3t planes. Often the acci-hive a move thf.r Uur.chu,; sile, dcnts wx.Jr -m , ( ° a™]forward »io Mtelhte comitnes. neuvers, and oRm duri and they don t seem to want to eta?-#, t~Z Y.urisk that, except as a last resort.'* crews and planes.The Russians are conceded a potential capability of haringThere is only one set of statistics that is reasonably com par-more very long range missiles able for military and commercial than will the United States next [services, it was said. These are year and through 1962. But Air j the data gathered for military Force Secretary- James H. Doug- passenger flrihu in the Military las testified that the Russians Air Transport Service, operated may be having trouble with their bv the *?r Force, and commer-Rosary p.m. toda Funeral lt;Zamora years, die of his da Stillman,big missiles.Several Ked FailuresAmerican intelligence believescial air lines. Net Availablethe Reds have had several mls-v and commercial air-sile launching failures, and' meS available. How-that they failed twice, perhaps C’ e P sported that inthree times, before sending ah.,' ^cars Pa^nger fatal-vehicle past the moon toward the1*.. e m schec?u*cd domestic s*jn. operations has been- ’ . I Jess tiian one ICO million*?» ■»?«• tlie MATS rate blie was ville and teur in Sc tired nine Survivir daughter, tw*o other orano of i Esteil fU four sons, esto, bothi Exact comparisons even be-ttween MATS and commercial air- aid of Rof HollistTwining and Air Force officialstestified, the United States is perfecting its own long range mis-! silts, but continuing to build’Xfiv/cchildren.Mrs. Cslightly higher than this.Horn r\CallerTAFT. (Mrs. Ca w ill be hlt; at Immac with Msg
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Mon, Mar 30, 1959
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