LETTER TO MR. C.H. MAREK, JR. FROM (Sanitized)

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• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: November 10, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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you vexy aE!i for your letter of
COUcerni-4.6 airplane accidents &W
clewed rt.1 ci : rrtra t ,4e Denver Post
he crash of an Air ' o 'CL Lane.
This In a, subject which is not within the
;1ex Of the Central Intelligence Agency and
I amt suggest that ym write to the Depart t
or the Air Force about; this matter. However,
your ,s test' in writing to us is IndAwd appreci-
t.ted..
STAT 0/DCI ]bak(10 Nov. 59)
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November 3,
TAT
I'm extremely interested in plane accidents for I think there
is a possibility that the unidentified flying objects is the cause
of many of these accidents. So I decided to send you a letter
concerning this mystifying situation.
First of all, lets review the crash of the Piedmont Airlines
The Piedmont Airlines DC3, en route from Washington to Roanoke,
Virginia, was last heard from at 8:24 p.m* on October 30, 1959,
when Capt. George Lavrino, the pilot requested landing instructions
at Charlottesville, Virginia. At that time the plane was believed
to be about six minutes from touchdown. The wreckage 18 miles west
of Charlottesville was not sighted until 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
The lone survivor E. Paul Bradley, of Clifton Forge, Virginia
said the pilot never gave any indication there was anything wrong.
Alto, the pilot's wife, Mrs. George Lavrinc said she thought
he would be O.K. because "He's flown this route so often."
Now, on February 13, 1955 a Belgian Airlines DC6 carrying 29
persons, including four Americans, was approaching Rome's Ciampino
Airport, cleared for a routine landing. A few minutes before it
was due at the field, the Belgian captain radioed that he had seen
a "fireball" in the sky. Before he could finish his report, the
radio went dead. Airport tower operators anxiously seamed the sky,
but the plane did not appear.
During the search for the missing airliner a mysterious
"orange spot in the sky" was reported near Rome.
Then, after a six-day search, the lost plane was found wrecked
in the mountains, with all aboard dead.
Here we have two very similar plane accidents, except in the
Belgian Airlines DC6 crash a "UFO was sighted."
There is something very weird going on the way so many planes
are crashing
Enclosed is article from THE DENVER POST, concerning an Air
Force F104 Starfighter that crashed minutes after taking off
into a house in Dayton, Ohio, yesterday.
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It is certainly very alarming they keep on crashing minutes
before landing or taking off, exploding in flight, catching fire
in flight, having structural failure in flight, and going out of
control in flight, and this has been going on a long tine.
I will be looking forcrard in hearing from you for I would
certainly appreciate having your opinion concerning these plane
accidents.
Sincerely yours,
C. H. Mar k, Jr.
Assistant to the Director
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Washington, D. C.
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 CRASH SCENE AFTER F104 DEMOLISHED HOUSE AT DAYTON
Two children were killed and their mother was injured.
Jet Hits House;
2 Children Die
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 2.- in the home nearest the Shoup's,
(UPI)-An Air Force F104 Star- said the plane plowed into the
fighter jet, one of the world's Shoup's house.
fastest airplanes, crashed into "I was washing dishes," Mrs.
a house near here Monday, kil- Butts said. "I heard this terri-
ling two children and injuring ble roar. There was an explo-
their mother. The pilot bailed sion. I rushed outside. The
out unhurt.
The plane crashed into the
rural home of Mr. and Mrs.
John H. Shoup. It crumbled the
brick structure and set it afire:
Neighbors said the Shoup's
children, Marie Lynn, 12, and
Lori, 2, were inside the house
and were killed.
They said Mrs. Shoup was
house was on fire.
Both Mrs. Butts and Allen said
the Shoup children were killed.
The mother was taken to Mi-
ami Valley Hospital in Dayton.
The public information of-
fice said it did not know wha
caused the crash. It dispatche
emergency crews to the seen
outside of the house at the time, I The office said the plane
clothing caught fire. L. W.
four to five thousand feet w
I
Allen, who lives across the Bradbury e j e c t e d him
street from the Shoup home, from it.
wrapped a cloth around the
woman and doused the flames.
The plane crashed minutes
after taking off from nearby
Wright - Patterson Air Force
Base.
Shortly after the plane crashed
gral the pilot, Maj. James W. Brad-
bury, 34, telephoned the base to
report he had ejected himself
and was not injured.
Mrs. Marjorie Butts, who lives
The Starfighter holds
world's speed and altitude
has flown at speeds of
in excess of 91,000 feet, t