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Navy Jet Runs Wild At Lincoln Air Base Fatal Crash
A Navy F9F jet, warming up on the Lincoln Air Force Base flight line, ran wild at full power and crashed through a huge hangar killing three Navy personnel. Lt. (JG) Vernon R. Chapman Jr., 25, of Grand Island, and two Lincoln men, Air Controlman 1.C. Kenneth C. Newman, 24, and Air Controlman 3.C. Hubert Lee Tracy, 29, were among the dead as the hangar burned and six other aircraft were destroyed or damaged. The jet plowed through aircraft, creating an inferno that claimed multiple lives and prompted a base investigation.
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