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Rescued FlierTells Of HisPlane CrashILITTLE ROCK (AP)-**I waspretty helpless for...it seemed hki an eternity.”But it was only a matter of seconds, as Air Force Lt. Theodore Adams Jr. sat in his co-1 pilot's seat of a crippled B47 jet bomber hurtling toward the snow* covered ground of northwest Ontario, Canada. Gravity held him down when he tried to get outand parachute.The B47 collided with a jet fighter at 39,000 feet last Thursday.The bomber was down to 2,000 feet before Adams, 24, of Green-1 ville, S. C , got out.Finally Adams twisted out of hislrseat and clamored through (Ik* open cockpit, onto the fuselage ofthe pUnr There the wiiuJ Charles Iheld him down.AMARUtrees ir to »eObilPRA1RH“I looked around to sec what I Charles Blt; would hit if 1 pushed loose. he big home Isaid. “I thought the vertical day mornstabilizer (tail) would yet me, but Madison C it had been torn off by the fighter. 1^74 and“So 1 pushed and then I was Grove for out in space just falling My limbs Survivorwere spread out and I couldn't I Harp, Fra;reach my lanyard (parachute! Harp] Bacripcord) daughtersAt Iasi he opend the lt;liute and Prairie Gflanded in a tree. Ho landed m ::ue, \lounl three fret of m«iw and kept warm nie Runiw all niuht by the fire of the burn- brother, V ing plane, inside the wreckage lay [Okla.; 40great gran Funeral 1the Iwxlics of two other members of the crew, Lts. Floyd A. Horn.27, of Boise, Idaho, and Carlton ducted thii A Hunt of Oklahoma City ;,t the MThe fouitli member of the crew. Baptist Chi( apt Roy Minor. 34. of Manchest- Rhodes, Bier. Tenn. also bailed out, with ony lt;metout trouble. of LuginbtAdams told his story to newsman ujon his return to Little Hock Air Force Base last night.Greeting him was his bride of Funeral less than a month. I l°n Fritts,The bomber was stationed at the'.''11* iK nhivp 2 P m • ,nFuneral II\ir Force search teams still i.^mier clt;are seeking Lt. Gaylord B. Treu, | * _27, of Gamer, Iowa, pilot of the1,02 i M i ssAlonzo fi
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Tue, Dec 22, 1959
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