PUBLISHER, 5 DIE AS PLANE STRIKES D.C. RADIO TOWER]

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100190067-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: January 26, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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P-WOLFE, Edgar T.
ISPA
Washington, Jan. 20 (Al') - Six persons including
the publisher of the Columbus Ohio Dispatch, were killed
today when a twin-engine plane struck a broadcasting
tower and. crashed on the American University campus,
lofficials at the newspaper
reported.
T. Wolfe Jr., 48, publisher and
board chairman of the Dispatch;
Fred Leveque, widely known Col-
umbus businessman, and Carlton
Darg zsch Jr., a Columbus attor-
ney. Identification of the fourth
passenger was withheld pending
confi oration.
Managing Editor Robert Smith
said In Columbus that the Wolfe
Industries plane was flown ty
two company pilots, R i char d
White and Robert Hatem, both
of Columbus.
The Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration said the flight plan for
the plane showed six perosns
aboard'.
No one was injured on the
ground, according to a spokes-
man at WAMU-FM, the campus
station. The station was tempo-
rarily :!mocked off the air.
The plane was a Beechcraft
King-Air.
Hits Vacant Building
Firemen said the plane, flying
in fog and rain, struck the sta-
tion's antenna and then fell to
the ground, crashing into a va-
cant building at the rear of the
home of the school's president,
George Williams. One wing of
the plane, landed in a parking
lot, firemen said.
An engineer at the radio sta-
tion said the plane exploded when
it hit the tower. "It was just
like a fireball up there," said
Dave Garner, who saw it come
down.
The plane, minus a wing, hur-
tled on and pieces of the craft
fell all over the campus.
Parts of the plane crashed onto
a small building housing barbecue
equipment. There was no one in
the building, adjacent to a dormi-
tory housing 600 students. The
dormitory was not damaged. .
The accident took place at
12:10 p.m.
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