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Of Icy Crash B-52 Stratoforfress crashed into authorities said Friday. I The plane went down last Sundayi killing one of the eight crewmen. The others bailed out, i Maj. Gen.... Richard 0 , [Hunziker said Friday the 40iman search team found bomb parts on top of the .thick ice that covers the sea off Green land, a Danish possesion. Officials stressed j there was no danger of a nuclear ex plosion. The bombs were sought to . prevent any contamination should they break open. Hunziker said the big plane came in on a glide, hit the ice, exploded and burst into flame. The site was North Star Bay, seven miles from Thule Air Force Base in a place where the ice ranges in thickness from 6 feet to 9 feet. The last radio message from the pilot said: “I am in trouble I have a cabin fire inside the The fire apparently melted the ice at the crash site and the main section of the plane was believed to have plunged .to the bottom of the bay 60C to 900 feet down. NORTH STAR BAY, of radioactive debris and a large blackened sheet of ice were al that visibly remained that crashed and exploded with a cargo of hydrogen bombs. A planeload of Danish' mid American reporters was flown Friday to the crash site of the B-52 which went, down in north Star Bay last Sunday while trying to make an emergency American and Danish recovery teams meticulously ^searched and dug into the massive ice looking for pieces of the plane or the four hydrogen bombs it carped. Of ficials believed they may have sighted one of the plane’s engines in the ice, but, were They searched in tem peratures that averaged 33 •below zero, returning occa sionally to a small but near the crash site to warm up. Teams of barking Husky dogs driven by Eskimos mushed in and out of the recovery area, sledding in supplies and equip ment for the operation. Maj. Gen. Richard Huntziker, chief of the recovery operations, said the search teams had found parts of one of the nuclear bombs, the teams also found small pieces of radioac tive debris from the bomber Officials had earlier reported that one of the hydrogen bombs, believed to be 1.1 megatons each, bad split open on impact of the plane, releasing radioac tivity. Portions of the crash area were contaminated with A large elongated black area showed where the bomber bit and exploded in flames.