Joseph Bradsher
Donated by : Gray Church
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FUNERAL FOR JOSEPH AMOS BRADSHER AGED 31 , OF CHULA VISTA , CAL., FORMERLY OF LITTLE ROCK , WHO WAS KILLED THURSDAY IN AN AIRPLANE CRASH , WILL BE AT 2 P.M. TUESDAY AT HARVEY CHAPEL AT MARMADUKE BY F.W. MATTOX .
PALLBEARERS WILL BE J.L. BRADSHER , O.C. BRADSHER , R.W. BRADSHER , W.C. McBRIDE AND L.I. RASSBERRY .
BURIAL WILL BE AT HARVEY CHAPEL CEMETERY BY DRUMMOND FUNERAL HOME.
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ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT
ARKANSAS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
BURBANK , CAL. - A STRICKEN DC3 , PILOTED BY A NATIVE LITTLE ROCKIAN , CRASHED 150 YARDS SHORT OF THE LOCKHEED AIR TERMINAL RUNWAY HERE YESTERDAY , KILLING THE PILOT , COPILOT AND A GROUND WORKER AND INJURING 24 PERSONS.
PILOT JOSEPH AMOS BRADSHER , 3230 OZARK , LITTLE ROCK , RADIOED SHORTLY AFTER TAKING OFF FOR OAKLAND , CAL. , WITH 30 PASSENGERS THAT HIS STARBOARD ENGINE HAD FAILED.
CRASH CREWS STOOD BY AS THE TWIN-ENGINE PLANE ATTEMPTED TO LIMP BACK TO THE FIELD. THE PLANE SHEARED THROUGH POWER LINES , A FENCE , CAROMED OFF A PARKED AIR FORCE C54 AND HIT A HANGAR.
TECHNICIAN WILLIE MALONE , 47 , LOS ANGELES , WORKING ON A WING TANK ON THE C54 , WAS KILLED . BUT NONE OF THE PASSENGERS WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
THE WHOLE SEAT I WAS BELTED TO WENT THROUGH THE REAR WALL. , SAID FREDA ZAPATA , 29 , A NAVY GUNNERS MATE FROM BROOKLYN , N.Y. ALL OF US CRAWLED OUT OF A BREAK IN THE PLANE.
FIRE CREWS QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED THE BURNING ENGINE AS RESCUERS PULLED THE FATALLY INJURED BRADSHER AND CO-PILOT KEITH DUTSON , 35 , SANTA MONICA , CALIF. FROM THE WRECKAGE.
THE NONSCHEDULED DC3 , LEASED BY THE CURREY AIR TRANSPORT INC. FROM KEARN INC. , SEATTLE , MISSED HITTING BY A FEW YARDS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S PLANE, " COLUMBINE." THE LOCKHEED - BUILT SUPER CONSTELLATION WAS BEING SERVICED.
TWENTY-FOUR PERSONS , INCLUDING TWO AIRPORT EMPLOYES , WERE TREATED AT NEARBY ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL.
BRADSHER , WHO HAD BEEN LIVING AT CHULA VISTA , CAL. WAS BORN IN LITTLE ROCK WHERE HE ATTENDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS . HE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL AT KAISER , ARK. AND FROM ARKANSAS STATE COLLEGE , JONESBORO.
BESIDES HIS MOTHER , OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE THE WIDOW , MRS. ANN BRADSHER , AND FOUR SISTERS , MRS. W.H. POOL AND MRS. H.F. GRAY , BOTH OF LITTLE ROCK , AND MISS RUTH BRADSHER AND MRS. J.D. HAWS , BOTH OF SHREVEPORT , LA.
THE BODY WILL BE RETURNED TO ARKANSAS FOR BURIAL AT MARMADUKE.
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CRIPPLED AIRLINER SMASHES INTO PARKED AIR CRAFT , HANGAR IN CALIFORNIA
BURBANK , CALIF. SEPT . 8, 1955
(THE TELEGRAM NEWSPAPER)
A PILOT SAVED THE LIVES OF HIS 30 PASSENGERS BUT LOST HIS OWN AS HE CRASH - LANDED A CRIPPLED AIRLINER AT LOCKHEED AIR TERMINAL TODAY.
THE CO-PILOT AND A TECHNICIAN WORKING ON A PARKED AIR FORCE PLANE ALSO WERE KILLED . THE AIRLINER , A TWO-ENGINE DC3 , WITH THE STARBOARD ENGINE CONKED OUT , SMASHED THROUGH POWER LINES , A FENCE , A PARKED AIR FORCE C54 AND A HANGAR . IT MISSED BY ONLY A FEW YARDS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S LOCKHEEDBUILT SUPER CONSTELLATION " COLUMBINE" WHICH WAS BEING SERVICED.
TWENTY- EIGHT PASSENGERS WERE INJURED , AS WERE TWO TECHNICIANS WHO WERE RUN DOWN BY THE PLANE ON THE GROUND. BUT NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY HURT AND ONLY ONLY 18 PERSONS REMAINED IN THE HOSPITAL TONIGHT.
OBSERVERS CREDITED PILOT JOSEPH AMOS BRADSHER , 31 OF CHULA VISTA , CALIF. WITH STRETCHING OUT THE GLIDE OF THE AIRLINER AND MANEUVERING IT TO PREVENT GREATER DAMAGE TO MANY BIG PLANES PARKED IN THE CRASH AREA.
EMERGENCY FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT , WHICH THE PILOT HAD SUMMONED BY RADIO , QUICKLY QUELLD FLAMES FROM THE DAMAGED ENGINE , WHICH EXPLODED. FRIGHTENED PASSENGERS CLIMBED OUT A BIG BREAK IN THE FUSELAGE AND FLED , FEARING A FIRE.
THE NOSE OF THE DC3 WHICH HOUSED THE PILOT AND CO-PILOT KEITH DUTSON , 35 , OF SANTA MONICA , CALIF. WAS BROKEN OFF . THE OTHER CREW MEMBER , STEWARDESS UTTA JORGENSEN, 18 , OF LOS ANGELES , SUFFERED HEAD INJURIES.
TECHNICIAN WILLIE MALONE , 47 , OF LOS ANGELES , WAS WORKING ON A WING TANK OF AN AIR FORCE C54 WHEN THE AIRLINER CRUMPLED THE WING , KILLING HIM.