Hartshorne Navy Nurse Is Killed In Airplane Crash
Ensign Pauline Bates, a navy nurse who met death last Saturday near Hanford, Calif., when a large transport plane on which she was a passenger crashed, will be buried here. She was reared in this community and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bates who reside on a farm south of Hartshorne. Ensign Bates attended school here and graduated from Hartshorne High school. Later she attended and graduated from the Baylor university nursing school and about two years ago enlisted in the Navy. At the time that the plane exploded in midair, Ensign Bates was being transferred from the San Diego Naval base hospital to duty with a unit on Mare Island. Besides her parents the Hartshorne nurse leaves a sister, Mrs. Jane King, of Jones Academy and a brother, Clifford Bates of Pryor.
(The McAlester News Capital, Tue. Nov. 7, 1944)
Services Are Held At Hartshorne For Ensign Pauline Bates
Funeral services for Ensign Pauline Bates, navy nurse who was killed in an airplane crash in California, were held Monday afternoon at the Baptist church here. Sailors from the U.S. Naval Ammunition depot, McAlester, were pallbearers. The chaplain from the depot read scripture and offered prayer. Two nurses also from the depot, were honorary pallbearers. Rev. C. H. Crouch, who knew Miss Bates in Dallas, where she took her nurse training, delivered a touching tribute to her family. A military service was held at Oak Hill cemetery, McAlester, where she was buried. Among those attending from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Bates and children, of Pryor; Mrs. Ima Roberts and Mrs. Anne Williams, Muskogee; Miss Hazel Bates, Fort Smith, Ark., Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Bates, Tulsa, Ensign Margaret Doty, San Diego, Calif., Mr. Sewell and Mrs. Mary Mastenbrook of Tiche's store in Dallas, where Ensign Bates worked as a nurse before entering the navy, Mrs. Maxine Wright, Tulsa, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolf and Mrs. Emmett Wheat, of McAlester.
(The McAlester News Capital, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1944)
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Died in a plane crash near Hanford, California.
Departing San Francisco on a flight to Burbank, TWA flight 8 (DC-3 NC28310) encountered a severe thunderstorm in the vicinity of Hanford, California.
The following is taken from Aviation Safety:
Flight 8 took off at 16:00, one hour behind schedule, and proceeded according to plan to a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet for Burbank on an instrument clearance. It reported over Fresno on schedule cruising at 10,000 feet and estimated Bakersfield at 17:35. Near Hanford, the plane was seen to enter a rapidly forming thunderstorm in cumulo-nimbus clouds. The DC-3 entered an inverted flying attitude, probably due to severe turbulence. The plane then broke up and crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "On the basis of all the evidence available the Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the airplane's structure as a result of severe turbulence. An important contributing cause was the fact that the airplane was undoubtedly in an abnormal attitude of flight, i.e., inverted, at the instant of structural failure. The cause of the airplane becoming inverted has not been determined."
The victims were mostly active duty military members. The crew and passengers included:
Capt Alfred T Bethel, Pilot
George Edward Smith, First Officer, co-pilot (1914-1944)
Myrtle Irene Miller, air hostess
George B. Williams
[name of one other plane crash victim has not been learned].
Hartshorne Navy Nurse Is Killed In Airplane Crash
Ensign Pauline Bates, a navy nurse who met death last Saturday near Hanford, Calif., when a large transport plane on which she was a passenger crashed, will be buried here. She was reared in this community and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bates who reside on a farm south of Hartshorne. Ensign Bates attended school here and graduated from Hartshorne High school. Later she attended and graduated from the Baylor university nursing school and about two years ago enlisted in the Navy. At the time that the plane exploded in midair, Ensign Bates was being transferred from the San Diego Naval base hospital to duty with a unit on Mare Island. Besides her parents the Hartshorne nurse leaves a sister, Mrs. Jane King, of Jones Academy and a brother, Clifford Bates of Pryor.
(The McAlester News Capital, Tue. Nov. 7, 1944)
Services Are Held At Hartshorne For Ensign Pauline Bates
Funeral services for Ensign Pauline Bates, navy nurse who was killed in an airplane crash in California, were held Monday afternoon at the Baptist church here. Sailors from the U.S. Naval Ammunition depot, McAlester, were pallbearers. The chaplain from the depot read scripture and offered prayer. Two nurses also from the depot, were honorary pallbearers. Rev. C. H. Crouch, who knew Miss Bates in Dallas, where she took her nurse training, delivered a touching tribute to her family. A military service was held at Oak Hill cemetery, McAlester, where she was buried. Among those attending from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Bates and children, of Pryor; Mrs. Ima Roberts and Mrs. Anne Williams, Muskogee; Miss Hazel Bates, Fort Smith, Ark., Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Bates, Tulsa, Ensign Margaret Doty, San Diego, Calif., Mr. Sewell and Mrs. Mary Mastenbrook of Tiche's store in Dallas, where Ensign Bates worked as a nurse before entering the navy, Mrs. Maxine Wright, Tulsa, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolf and Mrs. Emmett Wheat, of McAlester.
(The McAlester News Capital, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1944)
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Died in a plane crash near Hanford, California.
Departing San Francisco on a flight to Burbank, TWA flight 8 (DC-3 NC28310) encountered a severe thunderstorm in the vicinity of Hanford, California.
The following is taken from Aviation Safety:
Flight 8 took off at 16:00, one hour behind schedule, and proceeded according to plan to a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet for Burbank on an instrument clearance. It reported over Fresno on schedule cruising at 10,000 feet and estimated Bakersfield at 17:35. Near Hanford, the plane was seen to enter a rapidly forming thunderstorm in cumulo-nimbus clouds. The DC-3 entered an inverted flying attitude, probably due to severe turbulence. The plane then broke up and crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "On the basis of all the evidence available the Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the airplane's structure as a result of severe turbulence. An important contributing cause was the fact that the airplane was undoubtedly in an abnormal attitude of flight, i.e., inverted, at the instant of structural failure. The cause of the airplane becoming inverted has not been determined."
The victims were mostly active duty military members. The crew and passengers included:
Capt Alfred T Bethel, Pilot
George Edward Smith, First Officer, co-pilot (1914-1944)
Myrtle Irene Miller, air hostess
George B. Williams
[name of one other plane crash victim has not been learned].
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Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Sam Bates. She died in the service of her country.
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