CHARLES A NEHRING, JR., 38, Dallas, employee of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
4 KILLED AS JET AIRLINER EXPLODES.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 30 (AP) -- A big Houston-to-New York airliner exploded in the air last night, streaked across the sky like a comet and crashed. Thirty-four persons died as it struck on a central Texas farm.
The ship was a 75-passenger Braniff Airways turboprop Electra. It carried 28 passengers and a crew of six. It had scheduled stops at Dallas and Washington.
There was no immediate explanation for the crash.
[...]
The plane, costing $2,300,000, was placed in operation only nine days before the crash.
[...]
Bruce Chambers of the Federal Aviation Agency's control office in Fort Worth, said the ship was flying on an instrument plan at 15,000 feet. It made its last report about 11:06 p.m. when east of Waco, Chambers said. He described the report as a routine filing on the plane's speed and altitude.
The pilot gave no indication of trouble at the time, he added.
Broken clouds hovered over this area then. There was thunderstorm activity about 75 miles to the northwest but none in the immediate vicinity, the Weather Bureau said.
The airliner crashed on the R. E. White farm, 5 miles southeast of Buffalo, a town of 1,200 population 68 miles southeast of Waco. [...]
[excerpt of article sent in by member #47408081; publication source not given]
4 KILLED AS JET AIRLINER EXPLODES.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 30 (AP) -- A big Houston-to-New York airliner exploded in the air last night, streaked across the sky like a comet and crashed. Thirty-four persons died as it struck on a central Texas farm.
The ship was a 75-passenger Braniff Airways turboprop Electra. It carried 28 passengers and a crew of six. It had scheduled stops at Dallas and Washington.
There was no immediate explanation for the crash.
[...]
The plane, costing $2,300,000, was placed in operation only nine days before the crash.
[...]
Bruce Chambers of the Federal Aviation Agency's control office in Fort Worth, said the ship was flying on an instrument plan at 15,000 feet. It made its last report about 11:06 p.m. when east of Waco, Chambers said. He described the report as a routine filing on the plane's speed and altitude.
The pilot gave no indication of trouble at the time, he added.
Broken clouds hovered over this area then. There was thunderstorm activity about 75 miles to the northwest but none in the immediate vicinity, the Weather Bureau said.
The airliner crashed on the R. E. White farm, 5 miles southeast of Buffalo, a town of 1,200 population 68 miles southeast of Waco. [...]
[excerpt of article sent in by member #47408081; publication source not given]
CHARLES A NEHRING, JR., 38, Dallas, employee of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
4 KILLED AS JET AIRLINER EXPLODES.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 30 (AP) -- A big Houston-to-New York airliner exploded in the air last night, streaked across the sky like a comet and crashed. Thirty-four persons died as it struck on a central Texas farm.
The ship was a 75-passenger Braniff Airways turboprop Electra. It carried 28 passengers and a crew of six. It had scheduled stops at Dallas and Washington.
There was no immediate explanation for the crash.
[...]
The plane, costing $2,300,000, was placed in operation only nine days before the crash.
[...]
Bruce Chambers of the Federal Aviation Agency's control office in Fort Worth, said the ship was flying on an instrument plan at 15,000 feet. It made its last report about 11:06 p.m. when east of Waco, Chambers said. He described the report as a routine filing on the plane's speed and altitude.
The pilot gave no indication of trouble at the time, he added.
Broken clouds hovered over this area then. There was thunderstorm activity about 75 miles to the northwest but none in the immediate vicinity, the Weather Bureau said.
The airliner crashed on the R. E. White farm, 5 miles southeast of Buffalo, a town of 1,200 population 68 miles southeast of Waco. [...]
[excerpt of article sent in by member #47408081; publication source not given]
4 KILLED AS JET AIRLINER EXPLODES.
Waco, Tex., Sept. 30 (AP) -- A big Houston-to-New York airliner exploded in the air last night, streaked across the sky like a comet and crashed. Thirty-four persons died as it struck on a central Texas farm.
The ship was a 75-passenger Braniff Airways turboprop Electra. It carried 28 passengers and a crew of six. It had scheduled stops at Dallas and Washington.
There was no immediate explanation for the crash.
[...]
The plane, costing $2,300,000, was placed in operation only nine days before the crash.
[...]
Bruce Chambers of the Federal Aviation Agency's control office in Fort Worth, said the ship was flying on an instrument plan at 15,000 feet. It made its last report about 11:06 p.m. when east of Waco, Chambers said. He described the report as a routine filing on the plane's speed and altitude.
The pilot gave no indication of trouble at the time, he added.
Broken clouds hovered over this area then. There was thunderstorm activity about 75 miles to the northwest but none in the immediate vicinity, the Weather Bureau said.
The airliner crashed on the R. E. White farm, 5 miles southeast of Buffalo, a town of 1,200 population 68 miles southeast of Waco. [...]
[excerpt of article sent in by member #47408081; publication source not given]
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