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Survivor Of**Navy Plane% ,• • /LEMOORE NAVAL AIR STA- • TION (AP) — A naval airman remaihed in critical •condition today with injuries received in an' antisubmarine plane’s- crash which killed five men Thursday;The survivor was pulled from the burning wreckage minutes after the P3 Orion hit the -runway, rolled into a -field and exploded; It was based at Mof- . fett Naval Air Station to. the north.Identification of the survivor * and one of the dead was withheld pending notification of relatives.The four others killed, all Californians, wen Lt. Eugene- L. . Bates, 27, Campbell, the pilot; Lt. (jg) Larry D. Ray, 24, Santa Clara, student pilot; AW l.C. Thomas , P. Fcachtinger,. 25, Mountain View, and AT l.C. Mi- ; chael W. Merz, 28,. Milpitas.Several firemen were treated at a hospital and released after being overcome by smoke and _ heat, trying to ■ rescue the . trapped men. \ .. The Navy said the long-range , prop-jet radar patrol plane generally used for submarine sur- . veiHance was on-a routine ;rain: • ing flight.
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San Mateo Times
San Mateo, California, US
Fri, Mar 07, 1969
Page 22
Full Page
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Douglas R.
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