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42 Dead in Plane Crashes; CimtfmiM] friini n«lt;-k PnffCheadle, 24. the stewardess. One survivor watched her fall into the water for the last time arid swam to try to aid her.Bui He Rave up the rescue attempt when he found she was lifeless. He said she felt like she was frozen.An Air Force medical team; searched for the three missing! members of the rescue plane which plowed into the Olympic mountains on a return flight from the scene of the DC-4 crash.’ Officials doubted that the three [were alive and believed they were hurled out of the plane as it skidded down the mountain side.But the “paramedic” team camped out on the rugged mountain to search the plane wreckage and the surrounding area.Capt. Ca5imir Hybki of Tacoma, Wash., the pilot, said the! crash occurred in a blinding snowstorm as they were return* j ing 1o McChord Air Force base.! Wash. i“I think I hi? on the belly of! jthe plane. he said. “There wasj a blinding flash when we hit. I“Oxygen tanks exploded. The! ;plane roiled down the mountain ■ and we got out.” i; In The Sacramcnlo crash, the5 j twin-engined bomber glanced off ! the roof of a classroom building at Mather Air Force base then dropped on the roof of the prisoner barracks.The barracks was smashed “like a matchbox.” Ten minutes later the plane’s gas tanks exploded, demolishing what was left of the building.
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Lowell Sun
Lowell, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Jan 21, 1952
Page 24
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