Three Men Swap Planes in Fatal UPI Flight Crash
Brize Norton England report details a near miss rescue as a last minute plane swap saved one reporter while two colleagues and another observer died in a strato-tanker crash. The piece recalls the flight’s dire calm, the perils of fuel laden craft, and the moments before disaster, naming Maj. Quenton Raaz and colleagues Dan Coughlin and Bob Sibley among the dead.
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Brize Norton
England
UPI
Bravo
Bob Sibley
The
Boston Traveler
Maj
Quenton Raaz
San Antonio
Tex
Bill Cochran
National Aeronautics Administration
Bill
C.A.A
Kenneth Douglas
Arizonan Among Crash Dead
Westover AFB Mass lists 15 dead from jet strato-tanker crash including Chandler Ariz pilot 1st Lt Joe C Sweet and Brig Gen Donald W Saunders as airborne commander. Also names Broutsas Shipman Gabbard Hutter Gordon plus reporters Montellier Sibley Ginsburgh Williams Coughlin McConaughy Cochran Enyart with home towns Athens Brattleboro New York Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westover Air Force Base
Mass
API
Air Force
Donald W. Saunders
Athens
N. Y
57Th Air Division
Westover Afb
George M. Broutsas
Brattleboro
99Th Air Refueling Squadron
Joe C. Sweet
Chandler
Ariz
James E. Shipman
Kansas City
Kan
Donald H. Gabbard
Los Gatos
Fla
Joseph G. Hutter
Miami
John B. Gordon
Eighth Air Force
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Aurora Siqueiros
R. V
Dan Coughlin
Associated Press
Massachusetts
Tucson
Johansen, Delmanette, Mode, Penaljo Collegeset & Lewis
E. Pennington
Phoenix
Los Angeles
New Orleans
S. P
Sunset Limited
Houston
Beaumont
Lake Charles
California
Toole Ave
St. St
Chicopee
FBI
Norman J. Montellier
United Press International
New York
Robert B. Sibley
Belmont
Boston Traveler Aviation
A. Robert Ginsburgh
Arlington
U. S. News & World Report
Washington
Glenn A. Williams
Bethesda
Daniel J. Coughlin Jr
Boston
James L. McConaughy Jr
Time Magazine
National Aeronautics Association
William J. Cochran
Huntington
William Enyart
Greenwich
Swift's
Brookfield
IER Stone
Broadway
Rath
Arnold
U.S.D.A
Eatwell Tuna
Mission Inn No. 2
Scott Bath Tissue
Kentucky
Esevenrey Bsisigiss
Siig
Tauson
Citizen Comics
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