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Show F-51 FROM LAS VEGAS CRASHES AT ENTERPRISE; PILOT KILLED Air Cadet James E. Beegle,1 missing from Las Vegas Air Base for five days when he failed to return from a routine training flight, was found dead in the wreckage of his F-51 plane on Park mountain west of Enterprise, Enter-prise, Wednesday afternoon. The speedy aircraft burrowed a hole 15 feet deep as it smashed into the mountain at an altitude of 7,000 feet. Cedars near the scene were uprooted for about 100 feet around the crash by the terrific impact. j The search had centered in the Milford-Minersville area for several days, after an Air Force pilot sighted what he believed be-lieved to be plane wreckage on Frisco mountain west of here. When weather cleared sufficiently sufficient-ly for planes to search the area, they found nothing, and the search was extended to other mountains in this area. At one time, more than 50 planes were . engaged in the search, including three planes from the Milford Flying Service and a Stinson belonging be-longing to Russell Mayer. A ground party under direction direc-tion of M. I. Walters, chairman of Milford's- emergency committee, com-mittee, spent several hours Friday Fri-day afternoon searching the area in the Frisco mountains. About noon Saturday the weather which had remained heavy and cloudy, broke sufficiently for planes piloted by Ben Hillman, Russell Mayer and Melvin Rogers Rog-ers to thoroughly inspect Frisco Peak from the air. Several1 large Air Force planes, including includ-ing two L-13 rescue ships and a B-17, used the Milford airport as a base of operations. After exhausting all "leads" in the Milford area, including an all-night trip by a ground party following tracks coming from the high Hot Springs peaks in the Minersville area, the Air Force transferred its operations to Cedar City, and Wednesday the wreckage was sighted. |