[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9280]

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A military jet aircraft exploded high over southern Oklahoma Saturday evening and sent flaming wreckage plummenting to earth in a 30-mile radius around Duncan. Hundreds of watchers in Oklahoma reported seeing the explosion. At least one body was reported found in the wreckage. Reports of parachutes were conflicting, but an Oklahoma highway patrol pilot said he saw at least one chute drifting down near cookietown...Lt. Harold Hall said searchers found one body in wreckage 12 miles west of Duncan, but search and rescure headquarters said the main body of … continued below

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A military jet aircraft exploded high over southern Oklahoma Saturday evening and sent flaming wreckage plummenting to earth in a 30-mile radius around Duncan. Hundreds of watchers in Oklahoma reported seeing the explosion. At least one body was reported found in the wreckage. Reports of parachutes were conflicting, but an Oklahoma highway patrol pilot said he saw at least one chute drifting down near cookietown...Lt. Harold Hall said searchers found one body in wreckage 12 miles west of Duncan, but search and rescure headquarters said the main body of the wreckage fell near Cookietown, about 30 miles southwest of Duncan. Pilots Aloft See Blast Highway partol pilot, Art Hamilton, in the air over Oklahoma City, set the time of explosion at 5:05 p.m. he said he saw one parachute open at the explosion and drift down near Cookietown. Another pilot over Oklahoma City, Bob Loschke, a student at the University of Oklahoma, said he spotted the explosion and drift near Cookietown. Another pilot over Oklahoma City, Bob Lochke, a student at the University of Oklahoma, said he spotted the explosion from about 2,000 feet, 20 miles south of Norman. Several residents reported the craft had just broken the sound barrier, attracting their attention skyward. They said they glanced up just in time to see the craft disolve in a ball of the orange and yellow flame. (photo tag: Smoke mushrooms minutes after a high-flying jet exploded in the air over southwest Oklahoma. Plane in the foreground is on the ground at Will Rogers field here.)"

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PublishDate: O-11-8-59

Credit: Daily Oklahoman

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  • Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 8, 1959

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Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection

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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9280], photograph, 1959; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1699878/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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