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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS U.S. Strategic Air Command B52 nuciear bomber collided in tanker during ’a refueling mission over the southeast coast of Spain today and both . At l<v si, four members of the bailed out of the stricken fishin inais. Three, of them, |inclutu,’.0 the pilot, were taken to a hospital at Vei'a, The fate of the tanker’s crew Sources said one of the Iker—crashed on the outskirts of I Cuevas de Almanzora, about [six miles from the coast. The [wreckage was still burning [more than five hours after the The jet bomber apparently crashed into the sea because witnesses said they saw a dyemarker in the water. In a telephone interview with United Press International in Madrid, Capt Charles Wendorf, the pilot of the B52 said, “I haven’t talked to anybody at the Air Force yet and I just pened. Aii I know is I have a Wendorf said he was uncon scious until he hit the water and was picked up by a fishing Michael Koony, and Urn r.rd| pilot, Maj. Larry Massinger. I They suffered only minor | hums Buchanan, also wasl rescued but taken to a differentj hospital at /Vera. He nasi reported in good condition. I Wendorf said he did not know I what happened to the other | three members of his crew. The pilot said he did not| know what caused the accident, which happened about I0;20| The B52 was attached to the I 68th Bomber Wing at Saymourf iJohnson Air Force Base ini attached to the 910th Air Re fueling Squadron at Bergstrom I Air Force Base, near Austin,! Reports from the crash scene) Rescue workers dragged | llieved several more victims j [area of about a mile. Two members of the Direc-| I morning to take part in the in vestigation into the crash. They | jet bomber and a KC135 jet tanker collided over ,Spain today and crashed on the Mediterranean coast. Five of tire 11 crewmen aboard the two planes were rescued, U.S. Air Force officials said. Four of them were ■ identified as bomber crewmen. Air Force near Madrid said the B52| with a crew of. seven was from the] Johnson Air Force Base in North Car-| olina. It was being 1 refueled by the] tanker was from the 9iQth Air Refuel ing unit at Bergstrom Air Force Base,| Tex. It was temporarily stationed at| Moron Airport near Seville. son AFB identified the missing from] ner, of Belleville, Pa., ■ and T/Sgt.j The spokesman said those missingj ■ from the plane ware its commander, | Capt. Charles Wendorf of Slidell, La. ger, Maj. Larry Met singer, Wachu-I Messinger, Rooney and Wendorf| were identified as 'three of those hos-l pitalized at Aquilas. The odier was not I Spanish police identified a fifthl survivor as Capt. Ives Buchanan of I the bomber crew. He was hospitaIized| at Vera, 45 'miles northeast of here| near the wreckage scene. ,: