Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-01

Flyers 9Iuy win
Ship All the Way
As Engines Die
Three flyers escaped serious
injury yesterday. when theil
B-25, both engines useless
crashed In q tobacco field about
| Ia miles northwest of Waldorf
Md.
It was the second Andrews Ali
Force Base BIS ssnashup with
In AZ hours.
The first. on Sunday. killed
i've men and seriously injured q
sixth, when 1t plowed into q
hilltop some three miles west
of Friendship international Air
port.
The only injury yesterday was
a Wrenched back the .co-pilot
suffered when he dived from an
escape hatch as the bomber
began burning.
The airplane skidded to halt
less than 80 feet from q tenant
house on the farm. Flames de-
stroyed the plane and q chicken
shack.
Capt. r. j. Cameron, 80, OF
so Elm avenue. Takoma Park,
Md. the pilot. said fervently,
I'VE were very, very lucky"
Co-Pilot Treated.
His co-pilot, Capt. Lowell F.
Weyle, 80. Of 1888 New Hamp-
shire avenue, Langley Park, Md,
was admitted to Boiling Air Force
Base Hospital, but his injury was
described as minor.
The third man aboard was
Airnan SIC John j. Rooney, 23,
Brooklyn, N. Y, who lives at
Andrews, where he is assigned
to the 1403d Maintenance Squad
ron.
Capt Cameron had just re-
turned to the United States after
three years in England. He is on
temporary duty as a student at
the University of Maryland.
The injured flyer is assigned
to Air Force Headquarters at
the Pentagon.
The officers are attached to
Andrews for proficiency" flights.
They took off yesterday about
1880 pm. on a routine training
trip.
First Engine Quits.
Over Quantico. Va. the B-25's
right engine quit and Capt.
Cameron radioed the Andrews
tower he was returning. Nor
mally, a BIS can operate on a.
single engine. an Andrews.
spokesman said. I.
\ Over Waldorf. in Charles,
County, the remaining engine
died. The. BIS was up around
$500 feet.
Capt. Weyle, from his hospital
bed, told the story Of The har-
rowing time In the air.
y Capt. Cameron started in on
the glide path Capt. Weyle
said, "He noticed successive
lines Of trees on the ground
and no open space"
# the men bailed out, Capt.
Weyle said, there was no telling
where the plane might have
crashed. He said the crew mem
bers determined to prevent any
danger to people on the ground.
He lined up the ship" Capt.
Weyle said of Capt. Cameron,
"and started down. We were all
buttoned up. shoulder straps
and all.
Clips or Trees.
eve hit the first row Of trees
and snapped them off like tooth
picks. We hit the second row,
hit a green one, and ended up
behind the farmhouse. I dove
out Of the plane as the right
engine apparently exploded, and
I landed on my head, but it
wasn't injured.
Cameron did a great job"
The farm, on the p. p. Gates,
estate, Is tenanted by John w,
Thompson. He was near the
house when he heard the plane
bellyland, wheels up. He looked
up and 1t was bouncing toward
him down d hill that meets the
hill where the house stands.
It plunged through q barbed-
wire fence and started uphill
toward the house. Along the
way 1t fiattened two sizeable
trees.
Nearing the house. 1t swung
crafty to the right. and one
engine was ripped from the
wing. Then the plane stopped
alongside the chicken shack and |
began burning.
The farm. on Acton road, lis a
little more than a mile west OF |
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