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Belle Speed♦f:PidCoast Man PilotOf Downed JetCapt. Keith L. Thrash, 38, ofBay St. Louis, was the pilot-in-structor aboard an Air Force RB-47 stratojet which Tuesday crashed into a mountain near Morril-ton, Ark.Capt. Thrash, the son of Mrs. Ruth W. Suderbach, 207 Charles St., Bay St. Louis, and the otherfour crew members parachuted to safety.Residents of Morrilton said the blast shook buildings and homes throughou the city, some 15 miles from the scene of the crash.A spokesman at Little Rock AFB, where the six-engine jet was stationed, said the plane was on a training mission.Other members of the crew were:Capt. T. C. Miller, 42, the navigator, son of Mrs. E. L. Miller of Kent, Conn.Capt. Welden A. Behrend, 38, student pilot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Behrend, San Angelo, Tex.1st Lt. Robert B. Hetherington, 27, student pilot, son of Mr. and J“ j Mrs. Charles Hetherington, Col-“1 lege Park, Md.Staff Sgt. Vernon Huddle, 26, theI j crew chief, son of Mr. and Mrs.' Walter V. Huddle, Miami, Fla.%rdlpfis nf
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Biloxi Daily Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1959
Page 13
Full Page
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