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26 KilledIn Crash ofNavy PlaneU.S. PatrolsGerman SiteEBERSBERG, Germany (AP) —A four-engine U.S. Navy plane broke apart in flight Tuesday and crashed in flames near this south Bavarian town, killing all 26 aboard.Officials said at first the WV2 Lockheed Constellation—which apparently exploded in the cloudless sky—was on a secret mission. A spokesman for U.S. Atlantic Fleet Air Force headquarters at Norfolk. Va., later said the classified mission report had resulted from what he called a misunderstanding.Officials said that the Navy Department in Washington confirmed 26 persons had been onj the plane although the flight mani festo indicated 27 had been •board.Bodies RecoveredThe plane carried 22 Navy offi-j cers and men and four Army personnel. All bodies were recovered.!The plane crashed in a grass f field 10 miles east of Munich Air-! port. The tail and other parts were strewn along a path several miles long leading to the crash site.A fish hatchery worker said the plane had plummeted toward * earth with a shrill and frightening bowl, and then. There was a terrible explosion and flames shotup.” !°1The Constellation—flying out of vv Frankfurt but regularly based at aj Rota, Spain—had radioed an ^ emergency signal and apparently was trying for a landing at __ Munich.U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force Spokesmen in Europe called the flight a routine navigational training mission.Ares Patrolled U.S. Army officers took over the investigation until Navy ex perrs could fly in from Spain and i Italy, and 185 American soldiers L were assigned to patrol the area. ^lt;lt;I
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Victoria Advocate
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Wed, May 23, 1962
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