The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 3

Congress Probe of B-52s i. Sundy, D.e. 2, CCCC; ft Urged After Merced Crash 11 IN JAILED 4 IN KIDNAPING" .4 B-36 crew in how to fly the -v aircraft. CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE (Merced County), Dec. 1.

A team of 50 military and civilian ill TSv 9 A i Trouble developed so sud mm denly that the B-52 comman aviation experts today began der, Capt. John A. Goddard, A 'J did not have time to radio any probing the blackened re mains of the big B-52 inter A 42 year old packing worker was booked on suspicion of ss4 emergency message. f': v. continental bomber that South San Francisco couple- Two soldiers, who were driving on Hopetown Road, witnessed the stricken plane's plunge.

They were Sgt. 1c crashed with exploding force last night, killing all 10 men i 4 aboard. At the sam time, Congress man B. F. Sisk, who repre sents Merced, Madera and Fresno Counties, suggested in Fresno that the House and from their home Friday and terrorizing them for hours at gunpoint.

He is Homer Watson bf 1622 Washington by Broadmoor police; when he arrived at his home: with one of his alleged apJ tives, Mrs. Vidalee Aplett; 38, of 850 Commercial Souths San Francisco. siA Mrs. Aplett's husband police that Watson had forced 'o them into his car at After two hours of aimless'' driving, he said they conJi: vinced Watson to take them Senate Armed Forces committees launch a joint investiga i JiC, tion of the Nation's B-52 WIDILSPKEAI) General view of Merced Force B-52 nuclear bombing plane which exploded Alfred B. Stockman and Spec 3c Robert G.

Joiner. "We were about 300 yards away and heard a most unusual type of noise for a B-52. We are around them all day and know what they're supposed to sound like," Stockman said. "Joiner looked out the window and said, 'Good Lord, it's "Suddenly there was a large flash. The plane was awfully low, less than 1,000 feet.

Then just before it hit the ground, there was another explosion. "It hit the earth and bounced and then it went on over another three quarters of a mile, over the road. Then it hit again and it really exploded." MAJ. BRYANT GAY Lost in Crash County field showing bits of wreckage from Air after leaving Castle Air Force Base. found nearby, soon lapsed he hoped Air Force headquar into unconsciousness.

He had ters would not ground the no opportunity to tell them B-52s during the Investigation. home, but Watson sped with Mrs. Aplett when her husband stepped from car. what caused the tragedy. Before tne probe began to- ft day, Air police and highway The skidding plane left a if Watson "was charged withri scorched furrow 40 yards wide before it came to rest patrolmen had blocked off the crash scene, about four miles suspicion of kidnaping, assault ft "It would seem to us that in view of the three B-52 crashes in this area in the past year, some kind of an investigation is warranted," the Democrat declared.

"Since the B-52 is our principle retaliatory weapon, and as a safeguard to our country and for the men who fly them, we should take every precaution to see that they operate properly," it added. $24 MILLION LOSS. Sisk emphasized that the three B-52 crashes in northern California this year have cost the Nation $24,000,000 the on a knoll on the Ballico Fruit north of the base, with intent to commit assault with a deadly weapon; The Stratofor tress was Farm Company property. TV--. racked by at least two fiery intensely hot, white pieces and being an ex-convict-in RESCUE ATTEMPT.

of magnesium were strewn explosions before it plunged Much the same account was over a wide area. in a wheat field ana aisinte- possession of a gun. Mrs. Ap-1 lett said she had met Watson5; at the firm where they 'are employed? 13 VA To add to the danger, there grated as it skidded a mile, given by Ivan Bailey, 52, on whose 960 acre ranch the leaving a sheet of flames in were at least 25 live photo its wake. bombs, two feet in length.

However, Air Force demoli plane first hit, and by Glen Towers, 62, a fireman at the Ballico Fire Station 15 miles Nine of its victims were killed outright. Volunteer tion experts deactivated them Protest on Aid KARACHI, Dec. 1. (INfe.j i northwest of Merced. firemen, found the tenth man, before any of the magnesium filled devices, used to illum TSgt.

Gerald E. Riley, 26 year Towers rounded up a crew B-52s cost $8,000,000 each of a dozen volunteer firemen inate the night for aerial photos, exploded. old tail gunner, alive but crit-ically injured. DIES IN AMBULANCE. In February, a B-52 crash The Ertglish language "The Times of Karachi;" said today the United had complained to the PakVt stani Government "gross official inefficiency and bungling" in the use of and rushed them to the scene.

But, as Bailey said later, "There wasn't much we could do." -v He died in an ambulance near Tracy killed four men. while five died in a B-52 which while he was being removed otAsii tms hunk of battered metal from tail section is the biggest piece found of giant B-52 nuclear weapon plane which crashed soon after takeoff at Castle Air Force Base near Merced Friday night. They found the nine burned to the air base hospital, unable plunged to earth last September near Madera. bodies in one group Riley. American aid materials, m'c to give any account of the and have taken the lives of 19 airmen.

The investigation of the latest crash formally got under way this afternoon with the arrival from Omaha of Brig. Gen. William Eubank commander of the 93rd Bombardment Wing here. General Eubank said he had not ordered B-52s based here grounded, as the Air Force had done after the previous crashes. The general also said disaster.

The crash, the third of a Castle-based B-52 this year, oc curred about 10:05 p. m. The eight let plane had just taken off from Castle on a flight to instruct a former 1 52 Crash Victims Capt. Lcland F. navigator; bachelor; mother, MERCED, Dec.

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Gay, 558 Ditta Leone Shuey, Los An rfl 15th San Francisco; children, Robert, 7, and Alycia, geles. Capt. John A. Goddard, 39, aircraft commander; wife, parents, Mr, and Mrs. Milus Gay, Buckley, Wash.

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