2 AF OFFICERS FEARED LOST IN MD. CRASH

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700190019-8
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December 16, 2016
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December 10, 2004
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19
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November 19, 1956
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WASnWCrrOT4 v` Jr TV t1TT1 -.?r, ._____ . aaroved For Release 2004 house 1hs'erview rd., and callc# l11.'~'g for help. He was tiler, kit `v the base hospital Will, h.i was treated for sF and to.posure_ n t to c o Gen. Selser ? wmer, Porlich, a flight instructor,'" said they were cOmiug from !Dobbins Air Force Base in At- ,laiita and we lining up fdt` the landing approach at Bob ling when Oat engines quit. fie said tjsfv decided to ditch', fat the rivbf W.aid try to swim. The plane iu.,ne in about 300 feet from t;D4re opposite River view rd, AJesla, P r i n c e Georgesllriunty. 11"" 4' sald he was swim- ming 43, Oet behind the other two offI$ firs when he heard a call for! /1p. lie said he lost sight of, to others. l'erltf made his way to a general and Maj. Jose Blon- de:, 34, corn- mender of the 1104th Bane Ylight Squad- ron at Bolling, ? em-aped f r o in the plane but disappeared w It i I e swim- ining to shore t id General and Major Vanish in Polontac As Plane Is Ditched 'J4aj. Gen. James C. Seller, ,Jr., deputy director of the Net valuation Subcommittee of 't vatlonal rSecurity Council, was reported missing last night with another Air Force officer after their L-28 Aero Com- mander crash-landed in the Po. tomac River, five miles from Polling Air Force Base. The pilot, first Lt. Rickard B. Porlich sa; . the 44-year-did i 12 AF.()fiieers 1 Feared Lost In Md. (:rash ihg with the Coast Guard d neig.iboring Are depart-i there the plane disappeared. Gen. Selser was with the strategic Air Command until %st year when he Joined the, in 19.33. The twin-engine Aero Com- pane used by president Eisen-1 h over on short hops. such as r Fefea a t20i'd/~I1'1` :._DP75-001498000700190019-8 25X