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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00263R000200130002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 20, 1967
• Content Type: CABLE

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1 IT IS TRUE THAT SAC LOST ART 375 ON AN OVERFLIGHT MISSION
25X1 A6a OUT OF _ ON 1 JUNE. WE HAVE RECEIVED NO REPORT ON THE
ACCIDENT AS YET SINCE THE BOARD IS STILL IN SESSION; ALL THE
INFO BELOW IS INFORMAL.
25X1A6a 2. ART 375 DPT- IN POOR WX WITH REPORTED CBS AHD
TURBULENCE, THE PILOT HAD ABOUT 100 HOURS TOTAL IN THE BIRD
AND THIS WAS HIS FIRST MISSION. AT 45W ON HIS CLIMB OUT HE
REPORTED A MINOR "EXPLOSION". US WAS HAND FLYING THE AIRC*AFT;
RE STATES HE DID NOT LOOK AT E G INSTRUMXXrS BUT 870P
THE ERG IMMEDIATELY. HE ENTERED A 20 DEGREE BANK TURN FOR
RETURN TO THE BASE. THE ONLY INSTRUMENT HE B BRS OBSERVING
WAS THE BDHI. AT THIS POINT HZ ATTEMPTED CONTACT WITH FORT
WORTH CENTER. HE REPORTED PASSING 37 THOUSAND (LOSS OF ON IN
ONE MINUTE). THE PILOT THEN' FELT HE WAS IN A SPIN TO THE
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RIGHT AND INSTITUTED SPIN RECOVERY. A SECOND LOUD SEPLOSIOW
WAS )BARD AT THIS TIME. (PROBABLY AIRCRAFT BREAK-UP) TUE
PILOT BJTCTED SHORTLY THfficSAFTER. BEAHIWATION OF THE WRECKAGE
REVEALS THE AIRCRAFT WINGS FAILED IN MUCH THE SAME NANUR AS
THE ROLLING PULL-UP PAILURB OF 342 (OVBRSZBES). THERE SAS BEEN
NO CONCLUSION FROM THE ACCIDENT BOARD WHICH HIS ROT OOWPLET D
ITS INVESTIGATION AS FAR AS WE KNOW. BUT PUSSUNABLY TIM PILOT
ZITHER LOST FLIGHT R RENCE TBROOaR SOME INSTRMMRT FAILUHI
(ALTHOUGH NOTHING AT THE SCENE COULD BE FOUND TO SIB STINTIATS
THIS) OR BE PLACED HM ELIP IN A NANURVER THAT OVERSTRESSED TUE
ARTICLE. WE WILL PROVIDE Ftl$T1IBR INFO AS IT IS RBCSITED.
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