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KILLEN--THE CRASH OF A RIO AIRWAYS COMMUTER PLANE AT KILLEEN INJURED FIFTEEN PERSONS LAST NIGHT. THE PLANE GROUND-LOOPED, AFTER LANDING IN A. DENSE FOG AT THE IL LEEN AIRPORT N A FLIGHT FROM DALLAS. ONLY ONE PERSON, THE CO-PILOT, WAS SER IOUSLY INJURED. BRAD LANE OF KILLEEN WAS TAKEN TO A, TEMPLE HOSPITAL WITH A SEVERE BACK INJURY. BESIDES THE CO-PILOT AND THE PILOT DAVID SIMMONS OF TEMPLE, ONLY ONE CIVILIAN WAS ABOARD THE BEECH 39A AIRCRAFT. HE WAS DOCTOR WILLIAM TANNER R THE 40-YEAR FOLD PRESIDENT OF NARY HARDIN-BAYLOR COLLEGE AT PEITON. THE 12 OTHER PERSONS ON THE PLANE WERE ARMY PERSONNEL FROM NEARBY FORT HOOD. ALL WERE KEPT OVERNIGHT AT THE BASE HOSPITAL. RUT A SPOKESMAN SAID NONE APPEARED IN-SERIOUS CONDITION. CONFLICTING REPORTS HAE BEEN ISSUED ONDAMAGE. BOARD CHAIRMAN OF RIO AIRWAYS, TED CONNELL, SAID DAMAGE WAS LIGHT. BUT A WITNESS SAID THE PLANE SPIT OPEN BEHIND THE WINGS. AND ANOTHER RIO SPOKESMAN SAID THE 410,OOO-DOLLAR AIRCRAFT WAS. HEAVILY DAMAGED. .
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Killeen airport plane crash],
script,
January 13, 1971, 6:30 a.m.;
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