CABLE (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00447R000100010097-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 97
• Publication Date: February 28, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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KILLED WOULD LEAD TO SUPPOSITION THAT TWO WERE SOMEHOW
SUGGEST YOUR EXPLANATION TO
AND OTHERS
IN LOW KEY THAT FURTHER FLIGHTS UNTIL WRECKAGE
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BUT AFTER
BEEN CAUGHT IN JET WASH AFTER REFUELING BREAXOFF,
HIS AND TANKER CREW DEBRIEFING, THIS POSSIBILITY RULED OUT.
THEREFORE, NO WAY OF TELLING IF CAUSE OF RIGHT WING FAILURE,
APPARENTLY ALL WAY TO WING ROOTS
OF FLEET. 342 WAS OUR OLDEST
BIRD, AND HAD SUSTAINED LANDING ACCIDEN
AGO WITH MAJOR STRUCTURAL REPAIR THEREAFTER,
MUST BE EXAMINED IN EVIDENCE AS WELL.
SOME TIME
2. PILOT HAD REPORTEDLY REFERRED TO ''GUSTS" AND *VIBRATION"
OF SOME SORT PRIOR TO ACFT BREAKUP BUT SINCE KQS HAS NOT
HEARD DEBRIEFING AS YET`, CAN ONLY ADD THESE ITEMS TO LIST
! OF UNKNOWNS AT MOMENT. IR ANY EVENT, FOR US TO RESUME
FLIGHTS WITHOUT SAME BETTER HANDLE CN POSSIBLE PROBLEM
COMMONALITY THAN WE HAVE NOW WOULD APPEAR t 'ISE,. SINCE
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