350 ACCIDENT

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06559656
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2017
• Case Number: F-2015-02615
• Publication Date: December 17, 1963

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1. THE ACCIDENT BOARD FOR THIS ACCIDENT IS TO CONVENE AT XWBEIGE
18 DEC. REQUEST FOLLOWING INFO BE EXTRACTED FROM THIS MSG AND FURNISH-
ED TO COL JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD, VERBATIM:
2. THE FOLLOWING DISASSEMBLY REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM
THE ENGINE CONTRACTOR CONCERNING J75-P13 ENGINE, S/N 612431 TOTAL
TIME 273.5 HOURS.TS0 NEW.
QUOTE, THE SUBJECT ENGINE WAS RECEIVED FROM THE CUSTOMER
AFTER BEING INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT, FOR. INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS.
DISASSEMBLY FINDINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
A. AS RECEIVED, FROM THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF THE ENGINE,
IT APPEARS THE AIRCRAFT POINT OF ItipAcy WAS AT THE REAR OF THE ENGINE
AS PRACTICALLY ALL OF THE DAMAGE WAS CONFINED TO THE REAR-HALF OF
THE ENGINE. �
13, THE ENGINE WAS VERY RUSTY THROUGHOUT, INTERNALLY AND
EXTERN6"Y, ON ALL STEEL PARTS, WITH HEAVY CORROSION SETTING IN
ON THr: ESSORY CASE.
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C. THERE WAS LITTLE OR NO DAMAGE TO THE COMPRESSOR OR TURBINE
BLADES, INDICATING THE COMPRESSORS WERE NOT ROTATING AT THE POINT
OF IMPACT,
DO THE INLET CASE, COMPRESSOR OUTER CASE, INTERMEDIATE CASE
AND DIFFUSER CASE HAD LITTLE EXTERNAL DAMAGE.
E. THE COMBUSTION CHAMBER. OUTER CASE, EXHAUST CASE,
, . . , . .
AND AIRCRAFT HEAT-SHIELDING ON THE EXHAUST CASE (TAIL PIPE)
.WERE BASHED INWARD, DISTORTING THE PARTS CONSIDERABLY..
THE ACCESSORY GEARBOX BROKEN AWAY FROM THE INTER
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MEDIATE CASE AT MOUNTING LUGS AND ALL COMPONENTS ON THE. UNDERSIDE
OF THE ENGINE INDICATED IMPACT DAMAGE..
G. THE .MAIN BEARINGS, SEALS AND ROTATING PARTS IN THE HOT
SECTION APPEARED TO BE NORMAL EXCEPT FOR CRASH DAMAGE.
H. THE FUEL CONTROL P/N 389813, S/N 28016 WAS REMOVED AND
SENT TO PRODUCTION TEST FOR INVESTIGATION AND FUNCTIONAL BENCH TEST.
FINDINGS NOT COMPLETED AS OF THIS WRITING WILL BE REPORTED AT LATER
DATE.
- I. THE FUEL PUMP WAS BROKEN AT THE MOUNTING FLANGE,
THEREFORE, UNABLE TO PERFORM A FUNCTIONAL BENCH CHECK. PUMP WILL
BE COMPLETELY DISASSEMBLED AND TEARDOW4 FINDINGS REPORTED AT A
LATER DATE.
CONCLUSION: TO DATE NOTHING WAS FOUND DURING.TEARDOWN INSPEC-
TION AND INVESTIGATION OF THE ENGINE OR ACCESSORIES THAT INDICATED
ANY PART FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION THAT COULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE
ENGINE ACCIDENT. UNQUOTE.
SIGNED
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33-year-old much - decorated
son was "living somewhere."
But a Navy spokesman
'said, "I don't hold much hope
Both the
D.efe,p.se :pep art7
ment and the Strategic Air
.Command headquarters said
:there WaS.,:no..eVidence:that
they ;Sleek one p1
ane
-whielv�pfliest admitted..height. of rnor�ari 75,OOO
feet, ha.:0:71-0q#0:'hoOile�:;:a6.Y.'
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mechanicalIt appears, SAC said, that a
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plunging,SO;Wii.';
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ri,e1 api1.51iiike were op the lightt6
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CAPT JOE HYDE
'The ccckpit was
beeiton 'nectintiaiS's_an
tivities over Cuba, ad
of a mechanical fau1t?
into he news iri Ma96
when 3Francis Gary3 R�
-It was the U2
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listic Iss1es?i1i Cuba and
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TYPE OF U2 REPORTED LOST ----This is a U2 reconnoisance
-,plane, a 'type of which is reported lost about 40 miles northwest
of Key West, Fla. Debris has been spotted by a Coast Guard cutter
CONTROL FOR
BURIAL GROUPS
CARSON CITY (AP) � Ne- �
Nada's. pay -.before 7 you -
die burial societies will .come
under state contra beginning
Jan. ,1 of next year, State
Insurance Commissioner Paul
Hammel said Wednesd#.
Hammel said the insurance
division of the. State Depart;.
..ment of Commerce had. taken
.thestep "to prevent'unrelia-
ble b urial -societies from
:springing up in the ,.stat.".�::i
"The societies presently or
gan#ed in Nevada appear, to
. be .conducting their business.
In an -honorable manner. We
want to keep it .that way,",
Hammel said. - �
flying reconnaissance missions
over Cuba. ,.:Photographs taken
by these planes confirmed the
presence of Soviet offensive
missiles on the island and
brought the showdown that led
the world to the brink of nu-
clear war.
America's only known fatality
in this crisis was a U2 pilot.
offa's
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U2
OFF FLORIDA
nearby the point where, the aircraft vanished,
return from a mission over Cuba.
- (Continued from Page 1) Maj. Rudolf Anderson' was' convicted SOViet spy,: Rudolf
shot down Oct. 27, 1962, over
Cuba, apparently by a rocket.
It was in May 1960 that- the
revolutionary U2 first broke
dramatically into the, :riew,s;
when Francis Gary Powers Was
downed over :the Soviet' ,!1..1nion.
and imprisoned for 21 months;
until the United States obtained
his freedom in 'exchange for ;the
The disclosure that U2s were
spying :on the Soviet,, Union led
enraged.'�prernierr:Klumshchey to.
wreck)a:-'scheduled.sumrnit -con;
Navy"cleelined today to go
int.� :anf; detail about ,.,the: debris
picked',up by the Nemesis
In Washington ',' the Pentagon
saicLit,h0Sriqthing ,indicate
the,: fate-',:of.'ithe�-,Pilot::11yde's f a-
saidlie was inforMed of
t-ga4.1io fter
pparan
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tioned at Tucson,. 1Th�
Davis-Montha.n Air Force Base
at. Tucson is headquarters for
-the 4060th -unit; the: only one
aSsigried.to '
."'lientnon: 'Spokesman', said
the' craft. is:.ca11eNyU2. and is':a
Weather; plane�yerai*0fthe4J2
photographicA Irp9.p_maissance
planes keeping tala,pg:=,military
movements :-'2 and r construction/ _
work.'in Castrifs'.'-.:Cuba. -
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2 Spy Planea ..Crct-shex,
f
flier Flight Over Cuba
TT Wreckage Is Found in. Gulf,
,4' =--..44 Pilot's Body Not in Cockpit
1
�,�4 EY WEST, Fla., Nov. 21 (AP).�The wreckage Of a:".V.2.
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spy pane which vanished yesterday, presurably after a inie-
sioqover Cuba was found today in 100-foot deep waterini
the Gulf of Mexico. The body of the pilot was not idriql
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COCIE It. . .. ,
if
,.,-.An air-sea search by Navy and Coast Guard plaries,an:d4r
surface craft was continued for
the pilot, Capt. Joe G. Hyde, dramatically into the riews,t�
-jr., of La. Grange, Ga. - when Francis Gary Powers was
- Capt. Ernest H. Dunlap, Chief downed -: over Russia and ciiny:
of staff to the commander of prisoned for 21 months, until
-theltey West Navy Raw, said the .United States obtained his
tiiri:r1TavY salvage vessels, the freedom - in exchange for lithe
PeV.41-� and the Shrike, had convicted Soviet spy, Rudolph
rea'ofted the wreckage and de- Abel: : : : : � ' .: .- :' � '.+.:
it'efOlned that the pilot was .: The ,' disclosure :, that :cr-,,2'
not in the cockpit: ;'::- were spying - on Russia led
-1;'g;* , . . Premier Khrushchev to wreck
' : Sighted Oil :Slick
�rt);;4 0� a scheduled summit conference
Earlier, the : Cast diiard in Paris.
Cutter Nemesis had reported
�iiidliig debris- :at the spot 40 Father Informed
inileg northwest of Key :West . At La Grange:. pa:i Ca
tel,...,i1a0 milea north � of .the
Hyde's father ;:iiid.- he: i aS
_ aat' Of -Cominunist Cuba.
47i$4lwas at this place, at 10:92 informed ,of :,the incident ',,lhist
(EST) ' yesterday, that night, about 11 ' hours af ri,
_
ci.j.:* Hyde's plane vanished the plane's diaappeararice,' ut
tow radarscopes, : and -where he i -viol4 'not discuss its.be
antither aircraft eight mihutes
cause::cf:Alie.,,:Sear6CYatirroti
late4,reported sighting Ant oil
slielLi' � � , ' . . .!:,, ing hieibit'Onis:ttl�
;1- Mr.':;11yde:,:`:aii4'44.� :Siin.i:viii,S
, ,Itit� Strategic.- Air Command statione:.at....i."ticS6h;:4�4Vit'
ite-ndf:tuarters - at Omaha,--;-;,..a Di7no.;...mcnith6 Air::.1�01,604,311,4
smart, said, it was. believed at lhaSon is �headquartera.10r,
the crash .WaS,,cansed'bY _:
the 4080th - WI.J72: iiiiit;V, d.
aiiidiAl lailure::...;Mcith:s,Ac only one assigned to SAC. j
the Defense ':,Department A �:Peritagon, anokesman. said
i
tIkti:i4e was no evidence of theyvv.,2 Is ,a� weather 16,
eiji',Iiction ; against -:'7Alie verSiori. of-;1-, the 'Ili.2 poib-
which.411vas� OffieiallY4e. graphic reconnaissance pia e
rii-w.wri.-2...