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amiNEWPORT-BASED SAILORSURVIVES PLANE CRASH CTHFPlays Heroic Rescue RoleWhiDlIn Capital Disaster !' ThI wereJ, C. ISucJinnnn, of U.S.S. Wor-Jcoster, {ieis Credit for Removing ■Others I'riwu WretkagcA Newpor.-hasptt saltoi*. Jeff C. Bischnnfiu, 25, of M Clarke street, ship's serviceman first class, ol: the U.SS, Worcester, who curlier was believed a victim ol the crash of a Capital ' Airlines plane in the Potomac river Monday night, was definitely listed among the survivors. He played a heroic part In rescue work after the crash in which at least four were killed.Word that Buchanan survived the crash came from the Associated Prew and from his wife, Barbara. lie telephoned her apartment al 39 Clarke street.Mrs. Buchanan arrived here adayInvciLeo'*conntainchtelrollfleerSeandweregentsear-lot c St clt; New take Pi was polk num a Ti brea off r the was eha*DE. ■ - I IB*»■t *StaJeff V, Buchanantor.Iduetheasksoliv;hbebftokstathewaqntCQ\ChIbeeyefiy*dai■»Aa *■Ssaldajintitionolt;week ago 'from their home .at Laurel, Misissippi, to await arrival Wjj of.ihc^Worcester, for the holidays after a Mediterranean cruise. Buchanan left the ship at Norfolk to make, faster time to this city by plane, she said.Buchanan's pail In rescue work after the crash was told in an Associated Pres* story after re-p-orjiei's talked to him and Robert Tensley, 26, a sailor from Abilene, Texas. * .'Hensley : .hr ho and Buchananwere among Hie first to escape from the wreckage. '‘Jeff and I went back into the plane and started pulling out survivors. Some of them were impossible to get to. but I held a tourniquet on one man whose foot was cut off,” Hensley said.Buchanan ^airt the plane dipped an'tl started down suddenly about JO or 15 minutes after the “no smoking” light went on.Wq hit with a terrific impact, and ! could feel the tail of the plane swerve sharplj* to the right, I guess it was about five seconds from 'the time it dipped th~ until \vc hit.”Mrs. Buchanan said she received word about midnight fjom the Capital Airlines of the crash and svord that her husband wns in Bolling Air FJorcc Base Hospital. There wns nothing certain about his condition or injuries at the time, she * said, and it was not until more than an hour later she got in touch with the hospital to learn that he svas talking/' and was believed ■ walking/'It was not until morning, she said, after a sleepless • night a ad a frantic rushing around to get newspapers-for word of the crash.'that she learned her husband was alive and apparently uninjured. Later, in a telephone conversation from the hospital, Buchanan said he . probably would be released and would come here at once.Buchanan, a ship's .barker on the Worcester, rc-enlistcd in 1WS. He was in the .service for/our years during wartime remaining out for . a while after his diacharge-wii Ne as! in* lav vc IAlonthipciliqophotoviUuSOIRla.sen
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Newport Mercury and Weekly News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Fri, Dec 16, 1949
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