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HELICOPTER CRASH A twin-rotor, anti-submarine helicopte made by Bell Aircraft Corporation for the Navy)crashes and burns near the Bell plant north of Fort Worth. Four persons aboard are injured, none seriously. Official the Model H-S-L was hovering above ground about 15 feet when it dropped suddenly into a pasture aboat half a mile north of the plant. Aboard were two (Navy-Bureau-of- Aeronautics test pilots from Washington, (Commander H. S. Brown and Lieutenant W. A. Suker ;Xell Test Pilot Elton J. Smith of the Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills/2nd Bell Production Engineer William P. Rolling of Dallas All four crawled through a nose hatch before flames engulfed the copter. Rollings and Commander Brown were admitted to a Fort Worth hospital, Rollings with possible broken ribs and the commander with an injured ankle.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an anti-submarine helicopter crashing and burning near the Bell Helicopter plant in Fort Worth.
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