Show 4 1 ri r I I 3 I J y r dr i r 44 k rr i i t J A Nr Y AX t r Y YI j I r ro r r t r rAF AF AP Firemen Fight Flames Pouring From Turbojet I Four crewmen perished in this crash of a B 47 T Turbojet bojet bomber at Albuquerque N. N M. M Here firemen battle the resulting fire after V 1 i t 3 Air Crashes Claim 16 In Southwest By United Press Three plane crashes in the southwest ela claimed med the l lives ves of 16 persons Thursday but 45 passengers passengers passengers pas pas- aboard a Braniff Airlines DC 4 were saved when their plane made an emergency landing landing land land- ing with a burning engine Eight men were killed when an Air Force B 20 crashed and burst into flames near Davis- Davis 1 Air Force Base at Tucson ArizA Ariz A B 47 jet het bomber crashed and burned during take off from Kirtland Kirtland Kirt Kirt- land Air Force Base at Albuquerque Albuquerque Albu Albu- querque N. N M M. killing all four of its ts crew members Crashed Wednesday Both military planes crashed Wednesday Four more persons three of them Americans were killed when a private plane crashed into a mountain in Mexico l 85 miles south of El Paso Tex But 45 persons escaped with a total of only one sprained ankle when their Braniff Airl Airlines nes 4 DC made an emergency landing at Hugoton Kan The plane was en route from Colorado Springs Colo to Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa City Okla when an engine engine engine en en- gine caught fire Capt Jack Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford brought the big plane down safely and all the passengers and andI the crew of four deplaned without without without with with- I out injury except for the lone I sprained ankle I Total Loss Airline officials in Chicago said the plane was a total loss Twisted wreckage on a bleak desert marked the spot Thursday where a B 29 crashed and burned i near Davis Air Base I Witnesses said the plane apparently apparently apparently was coming in for a landI landing landing land land- I ing at the Tucson Ariz field when it suddenly plummeted to the ground and burst into flames A B 47 jet bomber plunged to the earth in flames at Albuquerque que N. N M M. as it attempted to take off from Kirtland Air Force Base The plane a medium bomber assigned to an atomic test group was demolished and its four crew members killed Authorities at El EI Paso announced announced announced an an- late Wednesday that four persons were killed when their plane crashed into a mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain in Mexico The wreckage of the plane was found scattered over a wide area Tuesday by a Mexican l Flying Service operator and an of Chihuahua State Construction tion Co The plane was owned by Dallas F. F Hill 32 of Abilene Tex who was killed along with two other Americans in the crash TUCSON Ariz March 27 UP The The me names of eight men who died when their B 29 crashed and See Page 3 Column 2 I fuel soaked the wreckage The ill fated Turbojet crashed on I I at Kirtland Air Force Base taking off from tower cleared runway AIR CRASHES Continued from Page One burned on the desert near Davis- Davis l Air Force Base were disclosed Thursday by the Air Force v The victims and next or of kin Capt Norman orman O. O Richards RIchard 33 33 aircraft aircraft aircraft air air- craft commander Los Gatos Cal Ca son of Mr and Mrs Roy I. I Richards Los Ga Gatos tos Second Lt Lysle L V V. Friend 27 pilot Romney W. W Va son sort of Mrs Elsie M. M Friend Romney First Lt Thomas J J. J McKeown navigator na Tucson husband of Mary Francis McKeown Tucson First Lt Richard Murdoch 32 observer observer observer ob ob- server husband of Frances Murdoch l Tucson T Ellsworth Springer er 40 10 engineer en en- Tucson husband of oC Maybelle Springer Tucson George Polk Turner 20 20 radioman radioman radioman radio radio- man next of kin Mrs Willis A. A Turner Pasadena Cal Cp Curton II H. Rochelle 20 left scanner survived by Eleanor F. F Rochelle Los An Angeles les Kenneth Patrick Cardinal 21 rl right ht scanner whose next of kin Is Lawrence Cardinal a brother of Shelton Wash Nash |