Paris Crash Worst One-Plane Disaster
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The four-engine, $6 million airliner rose only a few feet, ful Thpr missile carrying a high Mayor Ivan Allen had set out on his sad^journey soon after then plunged to the ground and kept thundering ahead for altitude nuclear device aloft was an Air France jetliner crashed back to earth as it took off 300 yards toward a cluster of homes in a village bordering destroyed over the Pacific today yesterday and burst into flame. A total of 130 persons were the airfield. Just 100 seconds short of detona- killed—all 121 passengers, 8 crewmen and Air France's Atlanta Spouting flames, the jet smashed through a fence at the tion because of failure in its agent. end of the runway and raced wildly over a rolling, wooded tracking system. Investigators studied reports indicating the plane developed slope before coming to .51 halt at the doorsteps of homes fa AEC and Defense officials in some trouble as it roared down the Orly Field runway for its the hamlet of Villeneuve Le Roi. takeoff and the pilot tried unsuccessfully to brake to a halt. Washington announced the cause The blast from exploding fuel tanks startled the village of the failure in the first high- ALL AMERICANS residents just sitting down for lunch. Mrs. Robert Metternich, altitude U.S. test in the current All the passengers were Americans and most were from who was in her kitchen, said: •erles. Atlanta and environs—members of the Atlanta Art Association CLEAR WEATHER No Detonation en route home with happy memories and mementoes of a "Flames flew up all around us. Fire flew up the side of BROTHER ACT — John, left, and Kenneth Letzanberger, of Troop 105, Keansburg, three-week tour of European art galleries and cultural sites. the house. I ran out the back door but had to get back In ,A safety officer said the missile pool efforts in a log rolling contest at weekend Csmporso at DeepdaU Farm, Mid- Only two Air France hostesses—seated in the tall end of immediately because of the flames." Vii destroyed without a nuclear dletown. More then 2,000 Boy Scouts from 100 troops in District 2 of Monmouth the big Boeing 707—were flung to safety in the flaming crash The takeoff just before 1 p. m. was In clear, bright weather detonation. at Orly Field outside Paris, A steward was pulled alive from —one- of Paris' sunniest days this summer—and everything Hie debris from the device fell Council turned out for tha camping program. the flaming wreckage but died in a hospital. seemed normal as the plane warmed up for the Atlantic into the ocean within a safety Mayor Allen hurried to inspect the scene of the accident crossing. tares previously designated. immediately after his arrival in another Boeing 707. He said The recording of the pilot's last words with the control There was no danger to person' 2,000 in Physical Fitness Tests that along with identification of the bodies he would also ar- tower at Orly Field was sequestered by the district magistrate nel. • • range for their transport home. for use in the investigation of the crash. The magistrate said The mayor,was accompanied by Edwin Stern, assistant the pilot's exchange was routine—asking the tower for per- The submegaton device was to mission to take off and getting the go ahead. have been exploded from an city attorney of Atlanta. They were met by officials of Air altitude of from 30 to 40 miles Scouts Flex Muscles France, Orly Airport, the Paris City Council, the foreign minis- But the inspector general in charge of the Investigation try and the minister of public works. said he noted skid marks on the runway which Indicated'the' It was lifted off at 11:45 p.m MIDDLETOWN — More than Pretty Francoise Authie, one of the hostesses, said: "It pilot had his brakes on for about 500 yards. The smoulderirig (Sunday, Hawaii time) and a de 2,000 Boy Scouts from 100 troops was so fast. So sudden. I didn't have time to realize what wreckage was searched for the automatic recorder which would' lay of 20 minutes followed before in District 2, Monmouth Coun- was going on." give a clue to the plane's final fatal seconds, Joint Task Force 8 officials an cil, turned out over the week- Witnesses said Capt. Roland Hoche, one of Air France's (See CRASH, page 2) nounced the missile had been end to participate, in the dis- destroyed. trict's annual i Camporee at An official said: Deepdale Farm here. - "They want to analyze this This year's program put the failure before there is any officia accent on physical fitness—with Atlanta—a City in Mourning announcement." a host of fitness tests and events on the schedule. Postponed Twice ATLANTA (AP) - This deep Northside churches. One min- ranged by the Atlanta Art As- State Supreme Court. Clerk Running Start ister changed his announced sociation to promote interest in Miss, Katharine d, _ Bleckjey — The explosion was to have oc- south city — at times raucous, The camporee started Friday sermon and others offered spe- art, left here May 9. Among once honored by, Britain's queen. curred over Johnston Island, 700 always warm-hearted — was at 5 p.m. cial prayer services for the the victims were some of the for helping .British servicemen.', miles southwest of Honolulu. I in mourning today, reeling from The program got off to a run- victims. Then, with the bene- city's most prominent society, —died in,the crash., , , had been postponed twice—Fri- the shock of a Paris air crash ning start Saturday, however, that claimed scores of civic and diction, they began the sad task civic and business leaders. Thomas H", Lanjer, president day and Saturday—presumably with scout runners moving in cultural leaders. of bringing prayer and com- .- -They —included Del -Paiges- of Oxford. Manufacturing^ Co^_ _because_ol cloudy weather.' ~an<fWwifer.BS-year-old Rob- -on-the-camp-site-from~five-dif-- The-"contagion "onragedy" fofrtb~siSf rowing' TamTIies. president of the art association: -The blast was expected to blow ferent directions. ert JPegraro, jr.',,retired and spread with the news that 115 his wife and several trustees • hole In the ionosphere, a layer Runners from Red Bank; Shock, Sympathy former vice.president of the Georgians died yesterday in the of the group. of radioactive particles above Long Branch, Asbury Park, flaming crash of;the jetliner. State and city leaders re- Bank ol,Georgia, and his wife the stratosphere. Freehold 'and Keyport con- There were 15 other victims. acted with ktatements of shock One entire family — repre- were killed. ' Several hours before the sched- verged on the1 site' in a dem- It was one of the bleakest and sympathy. Mayor Ivan Al- senting three generations — .There ware, several, physi- uled shot the Soviet Union onstration of fitness. days this century for Atlanta. len Jr. took off for Paris to was wiped out. .cians,. architects jm^ other ex- help in arranging return of charged that the high-altitude tes Each runner jogged a mile, The city counted 105 of its The six members of the fam- ecutives ,, < would be a dangerous step tha residents among the dead in bodies and gathering informa- ily were Frederick Bill Jr., 58; Prominent .Atlanta' attorney then handed over a "baton to tion for grieving families. will "curry the nuclear arms race another—scout from his area, the worst tragedy for Atlanta his wife Elizabeth, 47; their C. Baxter Jones Jr., 43, and his Into outer space," who, carried it another mlle^ since the 1946 Winecoff Hotel Allen ordered city hall closed daughters, Betsy, 16, and El- wife were among the crash vic- Russia said in a broadcast dis- From each area there were fire snuffed out 119 lives. at noon today and the flags len, 10; Bull's mother, Mrs. tims. Jones once ran for Con- , ,fjtjbute4y»,yf Tass"-News Agency Frederick Bull Sr,, about 80; ! a? many runners as there were In this, church-going city, lowered to half-staff. The Ful- gress. , Air. France District and Radio Moscow that thi many heard first word of the ton County courthouse also was and his uncle. Robert New- manager .Paul Doassans, 42, United States would have to take miles to the campsjte. comb, in his 70s. Friends said The Big Day tragedy at the morning worship to halt work at noon and dis- married only six months, was ful blame for any harm to othe services. It was a personal blow play the flag of mourning. there were no close relatives killed. He arranged the char- UP YOU GO — Scout Mike Wilson, Troop 25, Highlands, As runners completed their nations as a result of the ex- to the congregations of many The Georgians, on a tour ar- surviving.