Ex-lowan Among 92 Crash Dead
UPPERVILLE, Va (AP) - Searchers Monday resumes hunting for the bodies of 92 persons killed when a Trans World Airlines 727 crashed into a mountain during a wind-driven
rainstorm, killing all aboard. A former Iowan was one one of those who perished when the jetliner went down.
Sarah Franks Proctor, 34, a native of Lisbon, Iowa, had spent the Thanksgiving weekend with her sister-in Ohio and was enroute to her home in Chapel Hill," N.C., when the crash occurred She was the daughter of Mrs. Stuart Franks of Lisbon. Born Feb. 23, 1940, in Cedar Rapid she was graduated in 1958 from Lisbon high school and from the University of Iowa in 1962. She was married June 23, 1962, to Roy Proctor. Surviving in addition to her husband and her mother are two children, Anna, 10, and Joe, 5; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Harrington of Newark, Ohio and Mrs. Carl Klaus of lowa City and a brother, John Franks of Denver. Memorial services are pending.
Rocky Ledge-
The plane, TWA flight 514 bound for Washington from Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio
sheared off tree tops and slammed into a 10-foot-high rocky ledge near a top-secret government installation Sunday morning.
The .three-jet craft disintegrated on impact, strewing bodies and burning wreckage over a wide area on the slope of Mt .Weather. The 1,754-foot-high mountain is a foothill of the
Blue Ridge mountains. The plane's tail section later was found 100 yards below the summit.
Recorders Found-
Searchers found the flight recorders they hoped would provide a cue to what caused the
crash. Thomas Kunkel, FBI special agent, who is coordinating the body search, said at least 80 bodies had been removed from the mountain by early Monday. Bill Weston, of the National Transportation Safety Board which investigates, domestic air crashes, said both flight recorders were found intact. "The flight recorder, located in the tail section will tell us the (Continued: Page 2, Col. 1)
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altitude, air speed, heading, and GV(gravity pull)," said T. R. O'Brien, a safety board
spokesman. "The flight recorder in the nose will hopefully have the last 30 minutes of conversation between the crew and the Dulles tower. TWA officials said relatives of
the 85 passengers and seven crew members would be taken by bus Monday to a temporary morgue near the crash site to identify the remains. The Mt. Weather search was hampered by driving rain, fog and winds gusting up to 40-50 miles an hour, the same
weather conditions, that ,prevailed in the area when the jet crashed at 10:10 a.m. GST.
The flight had been scheduled to land at 9:23 a.m. CST at Washington National airport, directly across the Potomac river from Washington, when air-traffic controllers diverted it to Dulles International, about 25 miles northwest. The diversion was ordered because Dulles had runways sited in various directions. National only has north-south runways.
The manager of Dulles, Dexter Davis, said weather conditions there were highly unusual. "In the six years I've been here, a crosswind like this hasn't happened," he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said there had been no unusual communications between the plane's crew and air traffic controllers, "just the routine flight conversation."
When the Dulles tower lost radar-contact-with the plane about 10:10 a.m: CST local authorities were notified to begin a search. Two state troopers found the wreckage almost immediately. The plane sheared off tree tops as it plunged into the west
side of the mountain, leading one person at the scene to compare it to the work of a giant lawnmower. The plane then struck a rocky outcropping, caught fire, disintegrated and spewed over an area about the size of two football fields. The main wreckage
cut a swath 60 to 70 yards wide for about a quarter of a mile. Loudoun county Medical Examiner George Hocker, describing the difficulty of finding and identifying the' victims, said 'For about half of the bodies you can recognize that, it is a human." He said the rest of the bodies were dismembered.
(Page 1 and 2 of Gazette, published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday, December 2nd, 1974).
UPPERVILLE, Va (AP) - Searchers Monday resumes hunting for the bodies of 92 persons killed when a Trans World Airlines 727 crashed into a mountain during a wind-driven
rainstorm, killing all aboard. A former Iowan was one one of those who perished when the jetliner went down.
Sarah Franks Proctor, 34, a native of Lisbon, Iowa, had spent the Thanksgiving weekend with her sister-in Ohio and was enroute to her home in Chapel Hill," N.C., when the crash occurred She was the daughter of Mrs. Stuart Franks of Lisbon. Born Feb. 23, 1940, in Cedar Rapid she was graduated in 1958 from Lisbon high school and from the University of Iowa in 1962. She was married June 23, 1962, to Roy Proctor. Surviving in addition to her husband and her mother are two children, Anna, 10, and Joe, 5; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Harrington of Newark, Ohio and Mrs. Carl Klaus of lowa City and a brother, John Franks of Denver. Memorial services are pending.
Rocky Ledge-
The plane, TWA flight 514 bound for Washington from Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio
sheared off tree tops and slammed into a 10-foot-high rocky ledge near a top-secret government installation Sunday morning.
The .three-jet craft disintegrated on impact, strewing bodies and burning wreckage over a wide area on the slope of Mt .Weather. The 1,754-foot-high mountain is a foothill of the
Blue Ridge mountains. The plane's tail section later was found 100 yards below the summit.
Recorders Found-
Searchers found the flight recorders they hoped would provide a cue to what caused the
crash. Thomas Kunkel, FBI special agent, who is coordinating the body search, said at least 80 bodies had been removed from the mountain by early Monday. Bill Weston, of the National Transportation Safety Board which investigates, domestic air crashes, said both flight recorders were found intact. "The flight recorder, located in the tail section will tell us the (Continued: Page 2, Col. 1)
Crash—
(Continued from Page 1.)
altitude, air speed, heading, and GV(gravity pull)," said T. R. O'Brien, a safety board
spokesman. "The flight recorder in the nose will hopefully have the last 30 minutes of conversation between the crew and the Dulles tower. TWA officials said relatives of
the 85 passengers and seven crew members would be taken by bus Monday to a temporary morgue near the crash site to identify the remains. The Mt. Weather search was hampered by driving rain, fog and winds gusting up to 40-50 miles an hour, the same
weather conditions, that ,prevailed in the area when the jet crashed at 10:10 a.m. GST.
The flight had been scheduled to land at 9:23 a.m. CST at Washington National airport, directly across the Potomac river from Washington, when air-traffic controllers diverted it to Dulles International, about 25 miles northwest. The diversion was ordered because Dulles had runways sited in various directions. National only has north-south runways.
The manager of Dulles, Dexter Davis, said weather conditions there were highly unusual. "In the six years I've been here, a crosswind like this hasn't happened," he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said there had been no unusual communications between the plane's crew and air traffic controllers, "just the routine flight conversation."
When the Dulles tower lost radar-contact-with the plane about 10:10 a.m: CST local authorities were notified to begin a search. Two state troopers found the wreckage almost immediately. The plane sheared off tree tops as it plunged into the west
side of the mountain, leading one person at the scene to compare it to the work of a giant lawnmower. The plane then struck a rocky outcropping, caught fire, disintegrated and spewed over an area about the size of two football fields. The main wreckage
cut a swath 60 to 70 yards wide for about a quarter of a mile. Loudoun county Medical Examiner George Hocker, describing the difficulty of finding and identifying the' victims, said 'For about half of the bodies you can recognize that, it is a human." He said the rest of the bodies were dismembered.
(Page 1 and 2 of Gazette, published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday, December 2nd, 1974).
Ex-lowan Among 92 Crash Dead
UPPERVILLE, Va (AP) - Searchers Monday resumes hunting for the bodies of 92 persons killed when a Trans World Airlines 727 crashed into a mountain during a wind-driven
rainstorm, killing all aboard. A former Iowan was one one of those who perished when the jetliner went down.
Sarah Franks Proctor, 34, a native of Lisbon, Iowa, had spent the Thanksgiving weekend with her sister-in Ohio and was enroute to her home in Chapel Hill," N.C., when the crash occurred She was the daughter of Mrs. Stuart Franks of Lisbon. Born Feb. 23, 1940, in Cedar Rapid she was graduated in 1958 from Lisbon high school and from the University of Iowa in 1962. She was married June 23, 1962, to Roy Proctor. Surviving in addition to her husband and her mother are two children, Anna, 10, and Joe, 5; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Harrington of Newark, Ohio and Mrs. Carl Klaus of lowa City and a brother, John Franks of Denver. Memorial services are pending.
Rocky Ledge-
The plane, TWA flight 514 bound for Washington from Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio
sheared off tree tops and slammed into a 10-foot-high rocky ledge near a top-secret government installation Sunday morning.
The .three-jet craft disintegrated on impact, strewing bodies and burning wreckage over a wide area on the slope of Mt .Weather. The 1,754-foot-high mountain is a foothill of the
Blue Ridge mountains. The plane's tail section later was found 100 yards below the summit.
Recorders Found-
Searchers found the flight recorders they hoped would provide a cue to what caused the
crash. Thomas Kunkel, FBI special agent, who is coordinating the body search, said at least 80 bodies had been removed from the mountain by early Monday. Bill Weston, of the National Transportation Safety Board which investigates, domestic air crashes, said both flight recorders were found intact. "The flight recorder, located in the tail section will tell us the (Continued: Page 2, Col. 1)
Crash—
(Continued from Page 1.)
altitude, air speed, heading, and GV(gravity pull)," said T. R. O'Brien, a safety board
spokesman. "The flight recorder in the nose will hopefully have the last 30 minutes of conversation between the crew and the Dulles tower. TWA officials said relatives of
the 85 passengers and seven crew members would be taken by bus Monday to a temporary morgue near the crash site to identify the remains. The Mt. Weather search was hampered by driving rain, fog and winds gusting up to 40-50 miles an hour, the same
weather conditions, that ,prevailed in the area when the jet crashed at 10:10 a.m. GST.
The flight had been scheduled to land at 9:23 a.m. CST at Washington National airport, directly across the Potomac river from Washington, when air-traffic controllers diverted it to Dulles International, about 25 miles northwest. The diversion was ordered because Dulles had runways sited in various directions. National only has north-south runways.
The manager of Dulles, Dexter Davis, said weather conditions there were highly unusual. "In the six years I've been here, a crosswind like this hasn't happened," he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said there had been no unusual communications between the plane's crew and air traffic controllers, "just the routine flight conversation."
When the Dulles tower lost radar-contact-with the plane about 10:10 a.m: CST local authorities were notified to begin a search. Two state troopers found the wreckage almost immediately. The plane sheared off tree tops as it plunged into the west
side of the mountain, leading one person at the scene to compare it to the work of a giant lawnmower. The plane then struck a rocky outcropping, caught fire, disintegrated and spewed over an area about the size of two football fields. The main wreckage
cut a swath 60 to 70 yards wide for about a quarter of a mile. Loudoun county Medical Examiner George Hocker, describing the difficulty of finding and identifying the' victims, said 'For about half of the bodies you can recognize that, it is a human." He said the rest of the bodies were dismembered.
(Page 1 and 2 of Gazette, published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday, December 2nd, 1974).
UPPERVILLE, Va (AP) - Searchers Monday resumes hunting for the bodies of 92 persons killed when a Trans World Airlines 727 crashed into a mountain during a wind-driven
rainstorm, killing all aboard. A former Iowan was one one of those who perished when the jetliner went down.
Sarah Franks Proctor, 34, a native of Lisbon, Iowa, had spent the Thanksgiving weekend with her sister-in Ohio and was enroute to her home in Chapel Hill," N.C., when the crash occurred She was the daughter of Mrs. Stuart Franks of Lisbon. Born Feb. 23, 1940, in Cedar Rapid she was graduated in 1958 from Lisbon high school and from the University of Iowa in 1962. She was married June 23, 1962, to Roy Proctor. Surviving in addition to her husband and her mother are two children, Anna, 10, and Joe, 5; two sisters, Mrs. Howard Harrington of Newark, Ohio and Mrs. Carl Klaus of lowa City and a brother, John Franks of Denver. Memorial services are pending.
Rocky Ledge-
The plane, TWA flight 514 bound for Washington from Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio
sheared off tree tops and slammed into a 10-foot-high rocky ledge near a top-secret government installation Sunday morning.
The .three-jet craft disintegrated on impact, strewing bodies and burning wreckage over a wide area on the slope of Mt .Weather. The 1,754-foot-high mountain is a foothill of the
Blue Ridge mountains. The plane's tail section later was found 100 yards below the summit.
Recorders Found-
Searchers found the flight recorders they hoped would provide a cue to what caused the
crash. Thomas Kunkel, FBI special agent, who is coordinating the body search, said at least 80 bodies had been removed from the mountain by early Monday. Bill Weston, of the National Transportation Safety Board which investigates, domestic air crashes, said both flight recorders were found intact. "The flight recorder, located in the tail section will tell us the (Continued: Page 2, Col. 1)
Crash—
(Continued from Page 1.)
altitude, air speed, heading, and GV(gravity pull)," said T. R. O'Brien, a safety board
spokesman. "The flight recorder in the nose will hopefully have the last 30 minutes of conversation between the crew and the Dulles tower. TWA officials said relatives of
the 85 passengers and seven crew members would be taken by bus Monday to a temporary morgue near the crash site to identify the remains. The Mt. Weather search was hampered by driving rain, fog and winds gusting up to 40-50 miles an hour, the same
weather conditions, that ,prevailed in the area when the jet crashed at 10:10 a.m. GST.
The flight had been scheduled to land at 9:23 a.m. CST at Washington National airport, directly across the Potomac river from Washington, when air-traffic controllers diverted it to Dulles International, about 25 miles northwest. The diversion was ordered because Dulles had runways sited in various directions. National only has north-south runways.
The manager of Dulles, Dexter Davis, said weather conditions there were highly unusual. "In the six years I've been here, a crosswind like this hasn't happened," he said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said there had been no unusual communications between the plane's crew and air traffic controllers, "just the routine flight conversation."
When the Dulles tower lost radar-contact-with the plane about 10:10 a.m: CST local authorities were notified to begin a search. Two state troopers found the wreckage almost immediately. The plane sheared off tree tops as it plunged into the west
side of the mountain, leading one person at the scene to compare it to the work of a giant lawnmower. The plane then struck a rocky outcropping, caught fire, disintegrated and spewed over an area about the size of two football fields. The main wreckage
cut a swath 60 to 70 yards wide for about a quarter of a mile. Loudoun county Medical Examiner George Hocker, describing the difficulty of finding and identifying the' victims, said 'For about half of the bodies you can recognize that, it is a human." He said the rest of the bodies were dismembered.
(Page 1 and 2 of Gazette, published in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Monday, December 2nd, 1974).
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