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12 Die in Four
Military Plane
Crashes Friday
(By the Associated Press'
• Four military airplanes crashed
Friday, killing 12 men.
An Air Force bomber blew up
over Nebraska; a Navy plane
plunged into the Pacific Ocean;
a Military Air Transport Service
cargo carrier failed on a take off
in California; and an interceptor
crashed shortly after leaving a
base in Montana.
1f Four men were killed when a
$2Vi> million B-47 Stratojet bomb
er exploded over Cresco, Neb., 15
minutes after leaving Lincoln Air
Force Base. The concussion was
felt 13 miles away at Lincoln.
1f An AD-5N Skyraider took off
from San Diego Naval Air Station
on a routine flight and crashed
into the Pacific four miles north
of San Clemente Island, killing
three men. Searchers found only
debris and one helmet floating on
the water.
If A giant C-124 Globemaster
veered upwards ' sharply, stalled,
and then fell on its left wing
while attempting to take off on a
routine check flight at Travis Air
Force Base, California,
The Globemaster burned fierce
ly. Three men were killed and
lour more were injured.
1f A pilot and an observer were
killed when a Scorpion intercep
tor crashed just, after leaving Mal
strom Air Force Base at Great
Falls, Mont. The twin jet was be
ing ferried to Alaska from Hill
Air Force Base, Utah.
j President Will Request
Wing of 30 B-52 Jets
To Replace B-36 Bombers
SEATTLE, —The Times said
Saturday in a dispatch from
Washington that President Eisen
hower will ask Congress this week
_ for about $270 million to build a
j wing of 30 Boeing B-52 jet bomb
ers.
The story said the amount
would be included in a half-bil
lion-dollar upward revision in the
administration’s request for de
fense funds.
The big bombers, built in Seat
tle and Wichita, Kan., cost nearly
j $9 million each.
The Times said more than 300
B-52s now are on order to repirfce
B-36s in the Strategic Air Com
mand’s heavy bomber wings. It
added Air Force officials “have
wanted to increase the strength of
each wing from 30 to 45 planes,
which would require about 500
of the B-52s. .•
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