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Show AIR CRASH KILLS S. L. ARMY PILOT Second Flier Injured In Arizona Tragedy A pilot attached to the Salt Lake air base was killed instantly and another flier was critically 'injured Wednesday when their single-motored army plane crashed into a hillside northwest of Tucson, Ariz. Second Lieutenant Joseph A. Neal Jr., 26, formerly of Chattanooga, Chatta-nooga, Tenn., who was piloting the plane, was killed. The Injured In-jured officer Is Flying Cadet Navigator LeRoy T. Tempest, 24, of Fairfield, Wash. Both men were attached to the Eighty-eighth reconnaissance squadron. Fifth air base, Salt Lake City. Wreckage of the two-seater orange and blue plane was found scattered for 150 feet along a hillside 15 miles northwest of Tucson by a woman tourjst from New York City and her chauffeur. Officers at Fort Douglas said the filers left Salt Lake City early Wednesday morning to take part in bombing practice at Tucson. Tuc-son. The crash occurred before they reached the Arizona city. ' Officers said the plane apparently appar-ently had struck "very hard" in the rough country while trying to make a forced landing. |