The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 64, Ed. 2 Tuesday, August 19, 1947 Page: 2 of 16
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Mechanical Failure, Human Error Blamed
In Pacific Crash; Alcheson Presumed Dead
HONOLULU, Aug. 19 —VP—TheThe converted B-17 bomber left. As the plane headed east it drove 1
Pacific plane crash which left five Tokyo last Friday. It landed at into a 10-mile headwind 1
known dead and five presumed Guam and ground crews there re- Captain Still did not stop at little 1
dead, including Ambassador moved a faulty engine, replacing it Johnston island, 715 miles south- 1
George Atcheson, Jr. was describ- with another The pilot Capt K R west of Oahu He radioed the 1
ed by airmen here today as a Still, took the plane up for a three- Johnston tower that he had enough I
tragic accident caused by a com- hour test flight, and the 20th air left for eight hours’ flight 1
bination of human error and me- force on Guam subsequently re- tel left for . h 1
chanical failure, ported it in “top condition." which would have been more than <
Who if anyone, is to blame will The flight continued across 1 200 ample to reach Honolulu’s Hicham I i
be officially decided in an immed-
iate investigation ordered by Gen
Carl Spaatz, army air forces com-
mander
Fliers meanwhile based their un-
official judgment of both human
error and mechanical failure on
this confirmed sequence of events:
HE TOOK THE
LONG WAY HOME
TROY. N Y. Aug 19—P-
William G. De Roo 13-year-old
Boston, Mass., newsboy started
home today after a ride that
I took him 200 miles away from
I his newspaper route
The boy told Troy police last
night he hopped on an automo-
bile trailer after completing his
deliveries of the Boston Herald
and couldn t get off until the
vehicle reached Troy.
"It was going so fast I was
afraid to jump off,” he said.
THE ABILENE, TEXAS. REPORTER NEWS
Page 2 Tuesday Evening, August 19, 1947
ing a major offensive
He is General Sun Tu. a native
of Yunnan province. Now about 50 province,
years old. Sun commanded the
93rd and 60th armies in Kiangsi
, in the war against Japan.
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DENTUR-EZE
.miles of ocean to Kwajalein, in the field. I #
Marshall islands It was a com- hen things began to wrong
paratively short hop, and there was ES ।
plenty of gasoline left when the The sea-air rescue center here
plane landed there, the navigator estimated the ship actually was a
Capt. T L. Rider, reported. In little farther from Oahu than its
fact, things were going so well pilot had believed; and the head-
that new engine was not checked winds were getting stronger They
nor was the gasoline consumption, ranged up to 21 miles an hour-
The plane took offfrom nothing unusual, but placing a
Kwajalein Saturday after refueling heavier drain upon the fuel supply,
—carrying a total of 3,190 gallons Rider said the new engine seem-
of gasoline, sufficient for more ed to be eating too much gasoline;
than 15 hours flight. Rider said and the pilot, he related, believed
The. Kwajalein-Oahu Honolulu, his gasoline gauges must be wrong,
flight normally require, about 12 As midnight neared, the pilot ask-
hours._________________________ed the Oahu radio control center
------------------------------ for a fix on his position he report-
ed he was 25 minutes out, and had
'only 20 minutes' fuel
The Hawaiian sea frontier radio
‘Unknown' Named
Chinese Leader
PEIPING. Aug 19 *— A little-
known man who went to Manchuria
last spring has been appointed
commander-in-chief of China's Na-
tionalist armies in the north-
eastern provinces, where Chinese
Communists are believed prepar-
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treaty.
The biggest
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follow the art
Duarte Peron,
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center estimated, however, that
the plane was making only 150
miles an hour against the winds,
and that it was then 110 miles out.
The new engine "went out'' short-
ly, said Rider Then another en-
gine quit, and finally a third, while
the plane lost altitude rapidly.
Even the ditching (setting down
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Harvey Huglin of Fairfield, la . one of the three survivors on
at sea went wrong, said the sur-1 the converted B-17 bomber which crashed near Honolulu with
vivors. In the pitch black night, a U. S. Ambassador to Japan George Atcheson, Jr., aboard
wing hit the waves first Then, as11 L
Rider said, “the plane started to smiles in Honolulu where he is recuperating from slight in-
-------------------------------------------------- juries received in the mishap.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 64, Ed. 2 Tuesday, August 19, 1947, newspaper, August 19, 1947; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1645238/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.