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Crew Saved By Drifting SnowLIMESTONE i/P) — Swelling, drifting snow downed a giant ‘global bomber” but paradoxically saved its crew last night in the first crash of a 10-engine B36 at Loring Air Force Base.The 4]_* million dollar aircraft crashed on a landing run and burned with spectacular fury, but officials said all 11 crewmen “walked” away from the wreck. Five suffered burns.Col. Jackson W. Lewis, Loring AFB commandant, said the super bomber cracked up on a snow-choked runway when a northeast snow storm interfered with itsset-down approach.Lewis said snowdrifts cushioned the crash impact and delayed spread of fires until all hands scrambled to safety. The plane was returning from a routine training flight.The plane’s plunge sent up flames visible through the storm to townsfolk at Limestone, a community adjoining the New' Brunswick border base for B36 planes capable of taking an atom bomb 10,000 miles.No New Englanders were listed aboard the plane.Guided Missiles To Be InstalledI BOSTON i/P) — “NIKE” — the I guided missile that darts up to I 1,000 miles to find and fragmentize enemy planes—will be in-stalled at five northern Maine sites to protect Loring Air Force I Base at Limestone from sky raiders.! Army Engineers said the $1,-i 300.000 construction job w'ill startin July.I One NIKE launching rangewill be close to the big superbomber base itself. Others will be in Caswell Plantation, Connor,I and Caribou.
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Biddeford Daily Journal

Biddeford, Maine, US

Mon, Mar 07, 1955

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