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r The weather bureau said lows [I™.65 at ‘V « atPittsburg and Wamego. Lows lasttonight will range from 45 in the njg^t ranged from 63 at Lawrence ^northwest to 65 in the southeast, i down to 44 at Good landTransport Crashes 32 Passengers DieBLACKBUSHE, England —A ed safely before the explosion but1 crippled military transport plane-crashed in flames la-st night after 1 ,iash *as seen as far away,____. ,, . . , , as Barksdale Air Force Base at* desper.t* attempt to return here Shreveport, u _ » mlIe, aj for an emergency landing. Thirty*je three of 35 persons aboard died. Tht plan* w-as on a routineThe twin -engine Viking was car- ^onnaissance mission from Little f .trying military personnel and their I ? 00 * • ^ir i*otce Base. Air —------ RockL*,y families to Libya. Officals sad ™rcVrT u ,n ljUlie KOfK* —- ________ . identified the three crewmen who£ two children. Also aboard were 25 J J? °,ut as ai,°,r J0™*’ 37 le British soldiers, 2 War Depart- ,, L ’ 5. **. ,*J‘. !()f ment civilian workers and a crewKirkwoodsllt;‘ of 5 Mo., and Capt. Frank E. Cox, 33, p* ... , , . of Geneva, Ohio. tThro, soldiers and the pilot xht, mlHing officer was idcn..c were taken ahve from the flanun* ^ ,,s Cap( Robert L Boucher f„ . , „ ... , .. .. . .. . 32. of St. Joseph, Mo., a naviga-■»-! ■ • JL soldier and the pilot diedL^n j^ru^o,. wh0 was aboardi:?rrushedfor a training mission. The B47 normally carries a• crew of three. Air Force spokesmen at LittleRock said the six-jet bomber ap* 28 France, its first stop, when a parently went into a roll after re radioed appeal was made for permission to return for an emergon-te;badly burned.4.1 The plane had just left thetf* j Blackbushe airfield for Lyon,lt;fueling in flight and was unableto pull out. The exact altitude at,which the craft exploded wag not the field to get lined up with a’known.!4,lied13,ia runway when one engine explod-le. ed. The plane crashed near a I BULLETINiel-highway, ripped through a row of■r 60 trees and burst into flames. It TACOMA, Wash, tm—A fed-of I went down two miles from the oral grand jury today indictadrunway. Dave Beck, international pre*i-esi -- dent of the Teamster* Union,
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Garden City Telegram
Garden City, Kansas, US
Thu, May 02, 1957
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