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Redlands Daily Facts2 - Wed., Feb. 4, 1959B47 Jet CrashKills ThreeLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI—The Air Force today pressed its investigation into the crash of a B47 jet bomber here which killed three officers. The plane hit with such force that all emergency crews could find “were bits of fingers and four burned para* chutes.**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 jeach the site.One group of sheriffs deputies was lost in the woods for two hours hunting for the wreckage, which was scattered over a quarter of a mile.The 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 Magie, 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 Van Zandt Ave., Little Neck, N.Y.The B47 six-jet plane belonged to the 545th Bomb Squadron of the 384th Bomb Wing at the Strategic /dr Command base here.MedicaBy DOA skilled sir ter any organ with relative j This is due advances — U safeguard ag tions better 1 thesi use ol stitutes, better and preoperal patient The greates gery in the pa within the hui it was not 1 surgeons said heart never c the surgeon’s Today the h stopped while his work in a bloodless fieldTh« par feemachines me birth defects can be repaire sej better wh do. take more Many valve be repaired b: valves or pa that have beci tic valves ha1 hearts of somlt; Almost as fai gery itself is tl ing blood vessThis, too, is : medical center Not only is clots out of seIs surgically institutions h;headway in best is a ref an enzyme. to
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Redlands, California, US
Wed, Feb 04, 1959
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