Andrew of Yellow Springs, Ohio, commander of the plane 1st Lt. Lawrence Tacker of McConnell AFB identified the dead as: Capt. The plane, from McConnell Air Force Base, Wichita, Kan., disintegrated into hundreds of pieces after the explosion in this farm area of North Central Oklahoma near the Kansas border. ( AP) – A crippled B47 six-engine jet bomber barrel-rolled, crashed and exploded in a wheat field a mile east of here Thursday, killing all three crewmen aboard. Egelston of Levelland, Tex., observer-bombardier." 6 January " BRAMAN, Okla. , copilot, and father of six children, and 1st Lt. Pierson, of Danville, Ind., aircraft commander Capt. Carroll, 33, of Port Arthur, Tex., as the commander of the plane that returned, and Shiver as the pilot. Matthew Gemery, of Lakewood, Ohio, an observer, could have returned on his limping plane had he waited another minute before ejecting himself. Three of them were aboard the B47 which plunged into the Gulf, while the fourth, 1st Lt. An armada of planes and ships searched Thursday for the four airmen missing after the crash. Shiver, 29, of Albany, Ga., said 'we never knew what hit us' as the two six-jet bombers crashed together Wednesday night about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Cameron, La. The pilot of the recovered bomber stated that the lost plane apparently smashed down on his aircraft from above, "leaving wheel tracks on the cabin before it spun off to crash in Gulf waters. The observer who bailed out was also never found.
B-47E-5-DT, 52-029, is lost with all three crew. Air-sea rescue teams began a search of the Gulf in an area some 30 miles (48 km) SE of Cameron, Louisiana, on the Gulf coast.
5 January Two Boeing B-47E Stratojets of the 44th Bomb Wing from Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana, collide over the Gulf of Mexico during refuelling Wednesday night, causing one to crash and the other to limp home to base with damage, sans its observer who bailed out over the Gulf.
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Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the construction number (c/n), also known as the manufacturer's serial number, exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight call sign in italics, and operating units.ġ955 1955 On its 205th flight, the first prototype Cessna XT-37-CE, 54–716, c/n 40001, first flown 12 October 1954, becomes uncontrollable during spin tests and crashes in Kansas, Cessna test pilot Robert S.
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