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“There was this tremendous ka-boom and a big flash . . .; I thought that a plane had hit ■ my house. Then I ran outside I and I could see flames leaping • up over the hill.”This was the description given by Beatrice Smith, who lives ) in one of the scattered Wyman-Moulton Ranch houses about a mile from where Cmdr. Blair's A4 Skyhawk crashed.“Just before the crash. I heard a funny sound and thought maybe a plane was in trouble ... but so many planes come e over, you just kind of get used ■g to it,” Mrs. Smith said, f- She spoke of the event in astoic, matter-of-fact way. es “I’ve always thought this sort ht of thing could happen out here e- so it didn't get me too excited, in But it sure shook up my dog to Ace. He didn't settle down and to stop barking for about an hour,” ist she said.as The jet crashed in a shallow -a. gulley between three rollingm, green hills.Wreckage was strewn over a75 yard radius. The biggestIc piece left was a 15-foot piece offfi the tail section.The crash site was three milessouth of Leisure World and ap-proximately the same distance north of another residential development at a higher eleva-i tion.! Units from the Leisure World i station of the State Forestry Di-i vision promptly controlled the i blaze although small patches of blue flame silhouetted the ‘n a team of security guards from El Toro Marine Corps Air Sta-diss tjon through most of the night, om- These spots signified the al-14• most inextinguishable burning rom of the magnesium metal alloy she which is the main component of jet plane construction, man- Only a few patchy clouds werenty’s blotted on a star-filled sky at •licit- j the time of the crash. A few rove-’hours later, however, a very : she light mist began to fall at the (•crash «cuud
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Santa Ana Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Fri, Feb 25, 1966
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