2 AF OFFICERS FEARED LOST IN MD. CRASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700190019-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: November 19, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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house 1hs'erview rd., and
callc# l11.'~'g for help. He was
tiler, kit `v the base hospital
Will, h.i was treated for
sF and to.posure_
n t to c o Gen. Selser
? wmer,
Porlich, a flight instructor,'"
said they were cOmiug from
!Dobbins Air Force Base in At-
,laiita and we lining up fdt`
the landing approach at Bob
ling when Oat engines quit.
fie said tjsfv decided to ditch',
fat the rivbf W.aid try to swim.
The plane iu.,ne in about 300
feet from t;D4re opposite River
view rd, AJesla, P r i n c e
Georgesllriunty.
11"" 4' sald he was swim-
ming 43, Oet behind the other
two offI$ firs when he heard a
call for! /1p. lie said he lost
sight of, to others.
l'erltf made his way to a
general and
Maj. Jose Blon-
de:, 34, corn-
mender of the
1104th Bane
Ylight Squad-
ron at Bolling,
? em-aped f r o in
the plane but
disappeared
w It i I e swim-
ining to shore
t id
General and Major
Vanish in Polontac
As Plane Is Ditched
'J4aj. Gen. James C. Seller,
,Jr., deputy director of the Net
valuation Subcommittee of
't vatlonal rSecurity Council,
was reported missing last night
with another Air Force officer
after their L-28 Aero Com-
mander crash-landed in the Po.
tomac River, five miles from
Polling Air Force Base.
The pilot, first Lt. Rickard
B. Porlich sa; . the 44-year-did
i
12 AF.()fiieers 1
Feared Lost
In Md. (:rash
ihg with the Coast Guard
d neig.iboring Are depart-i
there the plane disappeared.
Gen. Selser was with the
strategic Air Command until
%st year when he Joined the,
in 19.33.
The twin-engine Aero Com-
pane used by president Eisen-1
h over on short hops. such as
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