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[2012.201.B0051.0146]

Description: Scorched remains of a plane near a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dark area in center background shows scorching path of plane after it hit wheat field. Two Oklahoma City insurance officials and the wife and daughter of a colleague were killed shortly after midnight Wednesday in the flaming crash of a private plane in far northwest Oklahoma City. The dead: FRANK J. HAVELKA, 49, the pilot. G. JAMES HUSTON JR., 37. MRS. NEIL BRATT.… more
Date: June 4, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0468]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Charred timbers of the Donald Tuttle home stands as gri, reminders of air age hazards. Four families on Ferguson Dr. were quietly rebuilding their lives Wednesday. The father of a fifth family was in Texas where his wife and younf son are hospialized with serious burns. His other two children died as a result of the crash and explosion of a jet fighter Friday in Midwest City. A ground crater in the backyard … more
Date: August 30, 1961
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0462]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Complete breakup of a C-124 that crashed at Tinker airforce base Wednesday is shown by locations of parts. At left is the center section of the aircraft; in the center is the nose that housed the cockpit, and at right the tail section, wreckage of the huge plane was scattered over a large area. Eight men were injured in the crash. Tinker hospital attendants said four of the men are considered in critical condition while … more
Date: September 17, 1958
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0461]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the wreckage in which three men died Friday night in a crash west of here. Three men, one of then apparently from Oklahoma City, were killed late Friday in the crash of a storm-tossed airforce B-25 that went down west of here, just across the Canadian county line. Wreckage of the plan, missing since 9:30 p.m., was discovered Saturday morning by an unidentified private pilot. Officials of Vance ai… more
Date: March 29, 1958
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0476]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tangled mass of wreckage around the engine of the Beechcraft Bonanza marks the spot Monday where the Amarillo doctor's plane nose-dived into the earth after an explosion in mid-air Perry. The plane burned on crashing."
Date: May 13, 1963
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0516]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of three guys wading through a flooded field, the guy in the far is wear a flat ring(?) hat who is right beside the wreckage, and more.)"
Date: May 27, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0471]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An air force B-57 carrying a two-man crew crashed and exploded Sunday morning in a wooded field in Midwest City, killing both men. There were no other casulties as the pilot, in an apperant heroic decision that cost him his life, guided the twin-engine craft away from nearby houses and into the field northeast of Reno and Douglas Blvd. The site where the crash occured is surrounded by heavily-populated residential are… more
Date: September 9, 1962
Creator: Matheson, Mandell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0507]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "not known who was at the controls of the craft since officers said the cockpit of the four passenger plane was badly crumpled. A search began shortly after the plane was seen go down, but rains and deep mud hampered the searchers. The bodies were transferred from Bristow hospital to St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City where autopsies were scheduled to be performed."
Date: July 12, 1970
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0470]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of the crash scene with a jet engine(?) up against a car that is heavly burned with white fuze and broken parts, a standing house in the background that is still steaming, and more.)"
Date: August 25, 1961
Creator: King, Cliff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0517]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "(Photo of three guys bent over looking at a crashed plane's wing section with an engine. Backside handwriting: "Left Wing Section Approx. 200 yrds. From - main section of plane. L. to R. Clifford Sheker FAA Tropper Fred Horn Mike Cantley FAA."
Date: May 27, 1978
Creator: Reed, Monty
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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