Posts Tagged ‘1954’

S/N 50-1241 The Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX.)Wednesday, February 10, 1954, page 4 AF Helicopter Blast Kills 2 TROIS PISTOLES, Que., Feb. 10 (AP) A two-engine U. S. Air Force helicopter, reported heavily laden with gasoline blew up yesterday on a flight from Quebec City toward Goose Bay, Labrador, and killed at least two…

S/N 52-7526 The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)Thursday September 23 1954, page 1 Pilot Dies In Blazing Plane To Let Eight Others Escape SAN BERNADINO, Calif., Sept. 22 (AP) – A heroic pilot rode his burning cargo plane to a fiery death so the eight other men aboard could bail out. They were rescued last night…

S/N 52-7482 Crash occurred 5 miles SE of Suwon AB. Pilot in Command – Stanley Wright Jr. http://www.accident-report.com/Yearly/1954/5407.html The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)Friday, July 30, 1954 page 2 Victims of Crash Identified WASHINGTON (UP) – The Air Force today make public the names of eight persons killed and presumed killed in a fighter plane and…

S/N 52-7500 Crash occurred 3 miles SW of La Testa. The Evening Times (Sayre, Pennsylvania)Wed, Jun 9, 1954 · Page 12 Identify ‘Copter Crash Victims’ Bordeaux, France (AP) – The Air Force today identified four men killed in a helicopter crash near here on June 3. They were 1st Lt. St. Clair McKelway Jr., Cold…

S/N 52-7510 The Daily Republican (Monongahela, Pennsylvania)Friday, January 15, 1954 page 1 Pilot Uninjured In Snow Rescue Helicopter Crash VIENNA, Austria (UP) – Second Lt. H. E. Cooley, of Pittsburgh, escaped injury today when his big H-19 Sikorsky helicopter crashed while trying to land at Blons in the avalanced-ravaged Great Walser Valley. Cooley already had…

S/N 53-4418 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI.)Friday, October 08, 1954, page 3 Copter Crash Third Worst Of Kind in History Alexandria, LA. (UP) Air Force officials said today the crash of an Air Force helicopter in which five officers died was the third worst disaster of its kind in helicopters The helicopter smashed into a…