FOIA
14 IN CRASH NEAR A-TEST SITE AF PLANE WRECKED ON HOP FROM BURBANK
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00001R000300470017-6
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 26, 1999
Sequence Number:
17
Case Number:
Publication Date:
November 19, 1955
Content Type:
NSPR
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pproved For Release 2000/09/11: GIA-RDP75-00001 RO
FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT
AF Plane
Wrecked on
Hop From
Burbank
ecurity Blanket
etails Withhe
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov
CPYRGHT.
The transport left early -o-;
day from Burbank, Calif., and,
at 3 p. m., Pacific time, was
overdue 8 hours, at Indian
!Springs Air Force Base near
the atomic bomb test site at
Yucca and Frenchman Flats.
I Details of the crash were
shr'~ttded in secrecy. March Airy
~9a_ at Riverside, Calif. First reports of the crash
isatd fiat it had information on' came from an ~ir Force rest
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55nSft could not release any, ever, the information was very
ansport plane, en rout T11ta gave rise to specula- meager.
i4h 1 dnhnnrr1 fn +hn Afnmi 14inn that. the inane, believed! Later Nellis s Air Force-Base,
I +s N to be a sour-engine C54, may. near here, officially reported
adanergyP r o v i n Commission's Rabe
or clv been, carrying scientists the crash and said 14 were
g assified equipment to the ( aboard. The release said the
aircraft was en route from Bur-
rashed today in the no
l , ALa_u~, site. I . - - -__ - - - .. , __ I -, -- -
said tli}__t a,~yy embargo bn i - il~,_Xqhin%on, Col. W. I
form Atif ii 5 aEout the crash ` is T4 elmantoler. chief of the pul
knowledge or tne. is no- reason to witnngia any
` t.. ,ri+,, raacnns "
When the aircraft failed to; ["ft's . just another y~ plan
Springs y AFB, a search was i craft carried Air . Force per
e civilian or
d
som
started. A few hours later the'sonnel an
wreckage was reported sight-suitants.._ He-said hendid no
ange all day and into the nig .
Snow fell over the mountap
f here:
he scene in the rugged, wood
escue party was near or t
et unidentified, perished.
It was presumed the 14,
ains.
Approved For Releas :n`~ b ef11 : CIA-4b# '1501 R000300470017-6
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