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[2012.201.B0051.0098]
Firemen sifting through a plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Fireman sift through the wreckage of a Kerr-McGee Corp. plane that crashed in Oklahoma City Tuesday."
Date:
January 15, 1974
Creator:
Tapscott, George
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0099]
Daytime photo of a fireman walking away from a flipped aircraft. Two fire extinguishers are in the foreground. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Wind flipped a private plane at Wiley Post Airport Saturday."
Date:
April 6, 1974
Creator:
Artman, Roger
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0100]
Officials inspect wreckage of plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Officials inspect forlorn heap of smoking metal that was an executive jet plane."
Date:
January 15, 1974
Creator:
Tapscott, George
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0101]
Officials sifting through plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKAGE SITE. An investigator peers at the remains of a Kerr-McGee Corp. jet which crashed Tuesday in Oklahoma City, killing the pilot and co-pilot, the only two aborad. The dead were Kenneth Blair Hunter, 65, the pilot, and Jack Ernest Garner, 51, both of Oklahoma City."
Date:
January 15, 1974
Creator:
Staff Photo
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0102]
Three people looking at the plane wreckage. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Kerr McGee."
Date:
January 15, 1974
Creator:
Tapscott, George
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0145]
Seat from plane crash lying in a field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Twisted propeller, above, was wrenched from one engine when a seven-passenger Beechcraft crashed just after midnight Wednesday in far north Oklahoma City. Four persons were killed and one critically injured, all linked to Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. Seat, below, was among numerous item strewn along the plane's flaming path in a wheat field."
Date:
June 4, 1970
Creator:
Taylor, Robert
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0146]
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. CANDACE BRATT, 15, her daughter. Bratt, the sole survivor, is in critical condition in Baptist Hospital with multiple injuries. All With Firm - The five were en route home from the Dallas-Fort Worth area in a twin-engined Beechcraft owned by Mid-Continent Life Insurance Co. when the plane dived into a muddy field. All were affiliated with the firm."
Date:
June 4, 1970
Creator:
Taylor, Robert
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0148]
Wreckage of a experimental plane crash. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKED PLANE flown and built by Mark L. Landoll was found Saturday southeast of Tinker Air Force Base some 18 hours after it had taken off for a 30-minute flight. Landoll and his passenger, Randy Smith, were hospitalized with multiple injuries, Story on Page 1-A."
Date:
June 5, 1971
Creator:
Mooney, Hank
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0169]
An aircraft flies over a flipped plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "INSTANT NOSE JOB was performed by a wind gust Thursday on this Cessna 172 aircraft parked at Oklahoma City's Expressway Junction Airpark. Owned by Gerald Nelson, operator of a Guthrie Flying service, the craft had been flown in by Bruce McCoy, Guthrie student pilot, and was parked and unattended when a small, gusty whirlwind flipped it over. No other planes were damaged."
Date:
March 28, 1969
Creator:
Heaton, Dave
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0170]
Plane wreckage in a open field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 41-year-old Bethany pilot, who celebrated his birthday Sunday, was in satisfactory condition at Baptist Hospital Monday after surviving a crash Sunday in his single-engine aircraft. A hospital spokeman said John C. Orf, 7609 NW 29, a former Oklahoma City policeman, was improving. Orf was pulled from the burning wreckage by two men, David Dawkin, 29-year-old former air force medic and a Baptist Hospital emergency room orderly, and Jack Keller, 7013 NW 21, a city businessman."
Date:
April 6, 1969
Creator:
Taylor, Robert
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0183]
Plane crash near some trees and a creek. The plane is mostly intact with little damage. Photo taken in the daytime. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "VACATION ENDED for members of the Ray Lynch family, 2115 NW 20, when their plane overshot the runway at Expressway Junction Airport, 3101 NE 63 and crashed in a creek bed Saturday noon. Mrs. Lynch received pulled pack muscles, but Lynch and their three children escaped injury. The family was returning from a vacation at Yellowstone National Park."
Date:
July 20, 1963
Creator:
Albright, Bob
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0184]
Military plane crash landing at Tinker Air Force Base. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Plane Flies Here for Crash Landing. A Tennessee Air National Guard C-97 transport crash landed at Tinker Air Force Base Tuesday. The six-man crew scrambled safely out of the plane after it stopped skidding along one of the field`s secondary runways. Maj. John L. Wade, 38, Murfreesboro, Tenn., commanded the plane that landed on the runway, partially covered with foam by the Tinker crash-rescue crew. Shortly after taking off from Blytheville Air Force Base, Ark., around 10 a.m. the crew learned the the right landing gear was not operating properly. In landing at Tinker, Wade gently let the left gear hit ground first ... then the nose wheel. Smoke puffed out as the wheels touched down. Wade held the hanging right wheel off the ground as long as possible. Then he let it lightly touch the runway. For nearly 2,500 feet the plane, with all wheels on the ground, rolled down the runway in a normal manner as crash trucks and ambulances raced toward it. Suddenly, the right gear crumpled. The right wing fell down. A propeller blade was …
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0185]
Officials approaching a military plane to find out what when wrong. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHY? Military Air Transport Service Wednesday wanted to know why this C-97 had landing gear troubles Tuesday threatening the lives of the six-man crew. The pilot executed what the Air Force called "a beautiful landing" in spite of the difficulty. The crew walked away unharmed. Tinker`s crash crews had spread foam on the runways in an attempt to stall a fire on the forced crash-landing."
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0186]
U. S. Air Guard plane on the runway. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
August 9, 1961
Creator:
Gumm, John
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0208]
A crumpled and wrecked airplane lies upside down in the middle of a field with wheels in the air. Harry Hentschel was killed in the accident. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Harry Hentschel killed by airplane crash."
Date:
July 5, 1935
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0209]
Several men surround the tail section of a plane after the Braniff Airways plane wreck. A workman is attaching a winch line. A person in the crowd holds an Extra Edition of The Daily Oklahoman. The headline reads "8 KILLED IN CITY AIR CRASH". Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Braniff Airways crash in city March 26, 1939 which killed 8 people."
Date:
April 1, 1939
Creator:
Brooks, G.E.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0255]
Six men stand around a single engine propeller driven aircraft that is setting with its propeller in the dirt. There are hangars in the background. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Forced Down Investigators and onlookers examine a small plane that was forced to land short of Tulsa International Airport Wednesday morning."
Date:
December 29, 1982
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0257]
Daytime photo of plane wreck with an ambulance and firemen on scene. Officials inspect wreckage in a city area. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Members of the Tulsa Fire Department and emergency workers inspect wreckage of a plane that crashed into a divided residential street in the neighborhood near the Tulsa International Airport. The two people in the plane were killed."
Date:
August 13, 1982
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0259]
An Oklahoma Highway Patrolman and six other men dig with shovels through the wreckage of a plane. There is a trailer with crash debris on it in the foreground. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Plane Crashes. An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper and others sift through rubble left from a plane crash Saturday that killed pilot Steve Philips, 29, of Chickasha. The plane apparently went down after striking a power line."
Date:
January 3, 1982
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0263]
The remains of a large military aircraft that crashed in a field near a tree line. Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Investigators check military plane which crashed at Fort Sill killing four persons."
Date:
October 16, 1980
Creator:
Tullous, Don
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0265]
A group of men stand near the tail section of a large military aircraft that has crashed in a field near a tree line. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Crash Kills 4 Investigators examine the wreckage of an Air Force Reserve C-123 transport plane that crashed on Fort Sill west range Thursday. Four of the five Ohio reservist crewmen on board were killed."
Date:
October 16, 1980
Creator:
Tullous, Don
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0266]
Men inspecting aircraft wreckage near a barn. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
January 10, 1980
Creator:
Longstreath, David
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0267]
Several people working to pull an aircraft from Fort Gibson Reservoir at a boat ramp. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Who Was That Man? Onlookers hoist the wreckage of a stunt plane onto a loading ramp at the Fort Gibson Reservoir after its pilot Lonnie Garner, was critically injured when the plane crashed into the reservoir Monday."
Date:
July 29, 1980
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[2012.201.B0051.0355]
A group of people looking an airplane that sets with its propeller in the dirt and its tail in the sky. One man is peering into the cockpit. Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A LANDING."
Date:
August 21, 1969
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History