CABLE FROM (Sanitized) TO IMMEDIATE (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00836R000100040056-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: June 24, 1966
• Content Type: CABLE

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T O P S E C R E T 241334Z CITE
IMMEDIATE
1. BEEN A BUSY DAY. DIVERS STARTED WORK 0600L RECOVERING
WRECKAGE. CRANE ARRIVED 0630 AND HAD ENGINE ABOARD LCV AT
0930. ALL MAJOR PORTIONS OF WRECKAGE ON BOARD LCV BY 1500.
MAJOR PIECES TAIL SECTION WITH TAIL PIPE, ENGINE ARE CLEAN.
QUICK LOOK AT FIRST STORAGE COMPRESSOR LOCKS LIKE POSSIBLE
SLOW ROTATION OF THIS SECTION PRIOR TO IMPACT. ALL COMPONENTS
F3POKFN OFF ENGINE.
2. RIGHT WING IN TWO SECTIONS, ABOUT 15 FT. EACH. LEFT
SING IN ONE PIECE. BROKEN TIP AND FOOT. COCKPIT SECTION IN SHREDS,
WIND SCREEN AND PART OF INSTRUMENT PANEL INTACT. ENGINE
INSTRUMENTS THAT WERE RECOVERED INDICATED ENGINE STOPPED.
WATCH RECOVERED WITH FACE BROKEN, STOPPED AT 1637
AIRSPEED STOPPED AT APPROX 220 KNOTS.
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3. RECOVERED ALL SPECIAL EQUIPMENT WITH EXCEPTION OF THE OS
AND SOME PARTS OF TH B?2. PORTION OF THE B-2 THAT WERE RECOVERED
WERE PALLY DAMAGED AND WIDFLY SCATTERED. SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
LOCATED IN SECURED COMPARTMENT ABOARD SHIPS9 ACCESS CONTROLLED
FY AP.
4. AT 1600 TODAY, RENTED LOCAL FISHING BOAT AND FISHERMEN
TOOK US DIRECTLY TO THE EJECTION SEAT, THE SEAT WAS RECOVERED
AFOUT 1/4 MILE WEST OF iRECKAGE, IN ABOUT THE SAME LOCATION
BODY WAS RECOVERED. ALSO RECOVERED HALF OF THE SEAT PACK (PART
WITH OXYGEN BOTTLE) AT SAME SPOT EJECTION SEAT LOCATED.
5. THROUGH HAND SIGNALS, FISHERMAN INDICATED HE WITNESSED
ACCIDENT AND DESCRIBED TO AND I HOW CANOPY PARTIALLY
SEPARATED AND EJECTION SEAT STRUCK FRONT EDGE OF CANOPY PRIOR TO
ITS CLEARING THE AIRCRAFT. HE ALSO INDICATED, AGAIN BY HAND
SIGNALS, THAT HE HEARD TWO EXPLOSIONS (POSSIBLY CANOPY AND THE
SEAT INITIATORS. HIS TESTIMONY, ALTHOUGH NOT VERBAL, WAS VERY
CONVFNCING. PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF THE CONDITION OF THE BROKEN
CANOPY. I EXAMINED THE CANOPY AND FOUND THE FRONT EDGE OF THE
FRAME MISSING AND THE MAJORITY OF THE BROKEN GLASS IN THE FRONT
PORTION OF THE CANOPY. THE CANOPY HAD BEEN FIRED AND INITIATORS
THAT WERE FOUND HAD WORKED. BOTH STRIKER PADS ON,, THE CANOPY APE
MISSING. WILL INTERROGATE FISHERMAN DFSCRJKFD ABOVE TOMORROW,
USING THE SERVICES CF AN INTERPERTEP.
6. EXAMINATION OF THE EJECTION SEAT REVEALED SOME COMPRESSION
SUCKLING OF THE SEAT IN THE AREA BEHIND THE PILOTS HEAD.
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7. 1 HAVE GONE INTO CONSIDERAPLF IN THIS REPORT BECAUSE I FEEL
WE MAY HAVE A SERIOUS ERROR IN THE INTFRGRITY OF SEQUENCING
OF THE EGRESS SYSTEM OR FAILURE OF THE STRIKERS PAD MOUNTS THAT
COULD AFFECT THE FLEET. TO FURTHER FORTIFY THIS CONCLUSION,
MY DISCUSSION WITH LAST PMi INDICATED THAT THE
8, STILL HAVE AECUT A HALF DAYS WORK REMAINING IN RECOVERY
OF PITS AND PIECES. SHOULD HAVE WRECKAGE INTO PORT FFY TOMORROW
EVENING AND COMMENCE OFF LOADING BOAT PY 2100. SHOULD DEPART
LATE TOMORROW EVENING RY C-124. INCIDENTALLY REQUESTED C-124 HAD
NOT ARRIVED AS OF 24/2115.
9. 4-ILL SEND DEPARTURE MESSAGE TOMORROW EVENING. EXCELLENT
SUPPORT RECEIVED FROM
T O P S F C R E T TOR: 2.41452Z JUN 66
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