Lou Currier, 31, daughter of Jack and Harriet (Reeves) Wagoner, was aboard Braniff Flight that broke apart and crashed over Dawson, Tx on 3 May 1968.
84 DIE IN WORST TEXAS AIR DISASTER
Tragedy Occurs During Storm
DAWSON, Tex. (AP) - A Braniff International Electra with 84 persons aboard exploded or caught first while flying through a turbulent rainstorm Friday and crashed into Central Texas creek bottomlands. There were no survivors.
The four-engine turboprop plane slammed to earth shortly before 5 p. m. and scattered pieces of debris and bodies over a half mile square area.
It was Braniff's Flight 352 en-route from Houston to Dallas, and marked Texas' worst air travel disaster.
Most of the wreckage was gouged into a 75-by-75-yard section of an abandoned farm three miles northeast of Dawson or some 90 miles south of Dallas.
The largest pieces were four or five almost-intact seats. First witnesses at the scene said apparently no bodies were intact. Many were burned.
"I looked up and there were flames all over the plane and it went down," said JERRY MERRILL, a Dawson high school mathematics teacher
84 DIE IN WORST TEXAS AIR DISASTER
Tragedy Occurs During Storm
DAWSON, Tex. (AP) - A Braniff International Electra with 84 persons aboard exploded or caught first while flying through a turbulent rainstorm Friday and crashed into Central Texas creek bottomlands. There were no survivors.
The four-engine turboprop plane slammed to earth shortly before 5 p. m. and scattered pieces of debris and bodies over a half mile square area.
It was Braniff's Flight 352 en-route from Houston to Dallas, and marked Texas' worst air travel disaster.
Most of the wreckage was gouged into a 75-by-75-yard section of an abandoned farm three miles northeast of Dawson or some 90 miles south of Dallas.
The largest pieces were four or five almost-intact seats. First witnesses at the scene said apparently no bodies were intact. Many were burned.
"I looked up and there were flames all over the plane and it went down," said JERRY MERRILL, a Dawson high school mathematics teacher
Lou Currier, 31, daughter of Jack and Harriet (Reeves) Wagoner, was aboard Braniff Flight that broke apart and crashed over Dawson, Tx on 3 May 1968.
84 DIE IN WORST TEXAS AIR DISASTER
Tragedy Occurs During Storm
DAWSON, Tex. (AP) - A Braniff International Electra with 84 persons aboard exploded or caught first while flying through a turbulent rainstorm Friday and crashed into Central Texas creek bottomlands. There were no survivors.
The four-engine turboprop plane slammed to earth shortly before 5 p. m. and scattered pieces of debris and bodies over a half mile square area.
It was Braniff's Flight 352 en-route from Houston to Dallas, and marked Texas' worst air travel disaster.
Most of the wreckage was gouged into a 75-by-75-yard section of an abandoned farm three miles northeast of Dawson or some 90 miles south of Dallas.
The largest pieces were four or five almost-intact seats. First witnesses at the scene said apparently no bodies were intact. Many were burned.
"I looked up and there were flames all over the plane and it went down," said JERRY MERRILL, a Dawson high school mathematics teacher
84 DIE IN WORST TEXAS AIR DISASTER
Tragedy Occurs During Storm
DAWSON, Tex. (AP) - A Braniff International Electra with 84 persons aboard exploded or caught first while flying through a turbulent rainstorm Friday and crashed into Central Texas creek bottomlands. There were no survivors.
The four-engine turboprop plane slammed to earth shortly before 5 p. m. and scattered pieces of debris and bodies over a half mile square area.
It was Braniff's Flight 352 en-route from Houston to Dallas, and marked Texas' worst air travel disaster.
Most of the wreckage was gouged into a 75-by-75-yard section of an abandoned farm three miles northeast of Dawson or some 90 miles south of Dallas.
The largest pieces were four or five almost-intact seats. First witnesses at the scene said apparently no bodies were intact. Many were burned.
"I looked up and there were flames all over the plane and it went down," said JERRY MERRILL, a Dawson high school mathematics teacher
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