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Show Ufali Children, Pilots Miss Death in (rash Fighttr Craft Plunges Within 20 Feet Of Syracuse Homi By Richard Hayes and Ivan Draper SYRACUSE, Davis County, June 29 Two U. 8. air force pilots walked away from a crash landing two miles southwest of here Monday Mon-day at 11:54 pjn. after their 12- ton craft hurtled through a barn, demolished a school bus, and narrowly nar-rowly missed a home in which a girl watched over six sleeping children. Lt William A. Man ah an, Romeo, Mich., was unhurt and his companion, com-panion, Lt. Donald F. Trautwein, suffered only minor scalp lacerations. lacera-tions. Their plane, an F-82 twin-engined twin-engined fighter, dug a three-foot furrow In a cornfield for 100. feet before coming to a stop. Like a giant butcher knife, the " right wing of the low-flying Juggernaut Jug-gernaut sheared through a garage ga-rage 20 feet from the house, reducing re-ducing the structure to splinters. A Davis county school bus parked Inside of the garage was moved 20 feet out of the garage and onto the road by the force of the Impact. Im-pact. The wing of the plane, traveling trav-eling at a speed of 140 m. p. h., sliced the csb of the bus completely com-pletely off. Watched Children Rhode Sandoz, 17, a Davis high school graduate, was taking care of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hamblin while the parents were attending a motion picture In Clearfield. Sleeping in the house were Ronnie Ron-nie Hamblin, 7; Glen, 5; Stanley, 4: Joyce, 2, and twins, Janice and Jeanette, L Miss Sandoz was standing by a window when the crash occurred. "I heard a plane coming in very low," she said. "It was sputtering sputter-ing like lt had engine trouble." Just as she went to the window to to see what it was, the crash occurred. "There was a loud explosion, but all I could see was a lot of dust and splinters," she explained. Pilots Manahan and Trautwein ssid a light in the Hamblin home caused them to steer the distressed ship. Spotted light Pilots Manahan and Trautwein said that the plane was bearing directly for the house with its occupants oc-cupants until Lt' Trautwein spotted a light which the baby tender had left burning. Lt Trautwein Traut-wein steered his craft to the' left of the light as the plane crashed. The plane, en route from Hamilton Ham-ilton field, CaL, ta its Kearney, Neb., base, developed motor trouble trou-ble Just as it passed over Ogden. "With 900 gallons of high octane oc-tane fuel aboard and our electrical electri-cal system burned out we were looking for a place to park," Lt Manahan said. Seated in adjacent cockpits in the twin fuselage plsne, the two pilots were completely cut off Sea Page 2. Column 3 , - ' ' ; '' ' 1 ! , : . - . . ' ' I - . ' . , " ' - I r i ; . . j : - At '"V " i L I i 'L& Sja4(,iin ii.iii r--.'XJir-.t, e.Wtt II II TrlbtiM-TlHra IUU Swvto rueu , They're Overjoyed It Only Came Close Grateful Tuesday for the fact that an sir force plane missed their home by only a few feet in s crash axe, left te right, Lloyd Hamblw, holding hold-ing daughter Jeaaette, 1; Mrs. Hamblln with Jeanette's twin, Janice; Ronald, ?; Glen, B; Rhoda Saadoa, 17. baby sitter with the children at the time of crash, holding Joyce, S. and Stanley, 4. The family's home Is near Syracuse, Davis county. UTAH CRASH Continued from Page One from each other when their "intercom" "in-tercom" went dead. Could See Flames "I could see flames burning through the skin behind Lt Mana-han's Mana-han's cockpit," LL Trautwein said. The F-82 Is constructed like two P-Sls joined at the wing and tail. The pilots were seated In two cockpits cock-pits of the twin fuselage. The left motor "conked out" and Lt Trautwein feathered the pro-pellor, pro-pellor, trying to keep his motor alive to bring the plane Into Hill field. "When they both conked and ve started down, all I could think of was 'Stop babyl Stop!" Lt Trautwein aaid. Sparks from the electrical system sys-tem ignited oxygen in Lt Mana nan's cockpit Too Busy "I waa too busy fighting flames and throwing switches to tell where we were," Lt Man ah an said. "I was counting on a nice haystack, and when we h" that garage I thought this is it!' " Both pilots said the plane perked sharply, almost turning completely around when the right wing tip struck the barn. Lt Trautwein was injured when his head struck the side of the cockpit cowling. When the plans finally stopped in the corn field 100 yards away, both pilots were able to get out of the ship and walk to the highway. high-way. They notified Hill field authorities au-thorities and were taken to the Hill field hospital for treatment and observation. Suffers Collapse When the Hamblins arrived home and saw the destruction, Mra Hambling suffered a temporary tempo-rary nervous collspae. After assuring as-suring himself of the children's safety, Mr. Hamblln attempted to place flares around the plane, which was blocking the highway. Possible catastrophe was prevented prevent-ed here when Hill field firemen arrived and stopped him, pointing out the danger of the heavy gasoline gaso-line fumes arising from the wreckage-All except Ronnie of the Hamblln Ham-blln children slept peacefully through the excitement After most of the excitement died down. Glen came out wanting to know, "What's happened?" And the number of the bus? You guessed lt No. 13. Hill field authorities Tuesday were investigating the crash for the air force. |