Evening star., 1960-09-14
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One Is Ditched
InAtIanticG Gale
Three Men Sought;
Crippled Bomber
Limps Into Shannon

Limps Into Shannon
SHANNON. Ireland. Sept. IA
(AP).-Two United States Air
Force Bat jet bombers on a
three-plane flight from the
United States collided over the
storm tossed Atlantic today.
One spun down through the
seas overcast. The other limped
300 miles to Shannon Airport
with an engine dangling from
one wing.
With visibility closing in and
b, waves running high. five Royal
Air Force rescue planes and
the British destroyer Battleaxe
were ordered to the area to
search for the three-man crew
Of the downed plane.
The search operation also
was reported to include three
United States submarines on
duty in the area. and the Air
Force sent out Neptune flying
boat and two AlbatroSS am
phibians. Search headquarters
said, however, the first ship
may not reach the crash site
until midnight. leaving the
survivors, if any, to be tossed
about for hours on their small
rubber escape RATS.
Plattsbnrgh Still Hopes
The Bats involved were
bound from Pittsburgh Air
Force Base. N. Y, to the United
States Air Base at Brize Nor
ton. England. A third plane in
the flight escorted the crippled
bomber to Shannon.
Coast Guardsmen said visibil-
ity in the search area was Every
poor" and that gale winds were
kicking up high seas. Shan
non Airport officials said they
did not know whether the pi-
lot of the ditched bomber was
able to set it down success
fully or whether it hit the sea
hard and broke up.
Air Force crewmen on over
water flights carry RATS with
radio transmitters which can
signal their position.
Relatives at Baltimore, Md.
were notified by Plattsburgh
that Capt. Robert c. Huber. 29.
of Baltimore, was pilot of the
missing bomber. He is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Huber of
27l1 Letona road, Baltimore.
Father of Three
Capt. Huber is married and
the father of three children.
twins Az. and a boy 612. Mrs.
Huber and the children are
visiting the pilots father-in-
law, Arthur Halleck of Balti-
more. Mr.. Halleck said Capt.
Huber spent the week end in
Baltimore and left Sunday,
saying he was going to fly to
England.
Plattsburgh identified the
other two crew members as:
Copilot, 1t. Duane E. Bart
lett. 25. single. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Emerson P. Bartlett of
Pittsford. N. Y.
Navigator. 1st 1t. Gary L.
Simpson, 25, married. and
father of one; son of Mrs.
Janis M. Simpson of South
Clinton, Iowa.
The pilot Of the crippled
bomber. Capt. John Brennan
of Evansville, Ind, told re-
porters:
Il don't know exactly what
happened. We were at $4,000
feet when the incident occurred.
Il saw one Of the other two
bombers spinning downwards.
I'VE were in poor shape our
selves and we turned around
and headed for Shannon. l
can tell you we were very happy
to see the green fields of
Ireland"
Landing Called Amazing
Airport authorities posted a
guard around the battered
plane and barred photographers
and the public.
The crafts outside port en-
CINE hung crazily from the
wing. An inside port engine
was battered and part of the
tailplane on the port side was
torn off.
IT'S amazing how the pilot
managed to land" said an Irish
official.
Capt. Brennan and the other
two crew members - Capt.
Richard Glogowski of Chicago,
and 1t. John Canocran of Den
vile. N. j.. refused to answer
further questions.