Press Clipping - Nature of U-2 Crash
This AP report from London outlines the conflicting accounts of how the American U-2 spy plane crashed over Soviet territory.
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POWERS
LONDON (AP)-THE L'ONDON DAILY WORKER TODAY SAID AMERICAN PILOT
FRANCIS
POWERS++SHOT DOWN OVER RUSSIAN TERRITORY MAY -SURVIVED
BECAUSE THE SOVIET ROCKET EXPLODED BENEATH THE TAIL OF HIS JET PLANE.
THE POWERF UL J57 JET ENGINE OF THE LOCKKEED U2 POWERS WAS FLYING
THUS
SHIELDED HIM FROM THE FULL BLAST OF THE EXPLOSION, THE BRITISH
COMMUNIST PARTY PAPER SAID IN A DISPATCH FROM MOSCOW.
DOUBTS HAD BEEN EXPRESSED IN AMERICAN OFFICIAL CIRCLES THAT THE
PLANE HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN BY A ROCKET AT ALL, MOST EXPERTS SAYING
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN LITTLE LEFT OF THE CRAFT OR THE PILOT IF IT
HAD BEEN.
DOUBTS ALSO WERE EXPRESSED ABOUT THE SOVIET REPORT THAT THE PLANE
WAS HIT AT OVER 60,000 FEET ALTITUDE BECAUSE POWERS REPORTEDLY
PARACHUTED DOWN WITHOUT INJURY. U. S. EXPERTS, INCLUDING THE PLANE'S
DESIGNER, DOUBTED THE RUSSIANS COULD HAVE SALVAGED THE FILMS THEY KAVE
BEEN SHOWING AS POWERS' WORK HAD THE PLANE FALLEN FROM SUCK HIGH
ALTITUDE.
WE 948 AED 5/13
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