Talk:United Air Lines Flight 615

NYT report
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In its August 25, 1951, edition, The New York Times reported: Harry Kimball, special agent in charge of the San Francisco office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, made known this afternoon that the bureau was beginning an inquiry 'to determine whether sabotage has been involved.' A bureau spokesman refused to amplify this brief statement despite an assertion in another quarter that 'the F. B. I. has assigned a small army to this case.' The number involved in the assignment was also withheld at Mr. Kimball's office.

The bureau announced tonight that it was bringing fingerprint experts and laboratory technicians from Washington to aid in the investigation and to help identify the bodies. Surprise was shown by some observers at the speed with which the Federal agents began their inquiry, a speed, it was suggested, that was somewhat greater than is customary in such cases.

The Civil Aeronautics Board began an immediate investigation, as well, with E. R. Mitchell, its first representative at the scene, fixing the time of the crash and saying the plane's landing gear had been lowered. Weather could not have been the cause of the crash but might have been a contributing factor, according to the San Francisco office of the U.S. Weather Bureau. There was an overcast of 1,400 to 2,000 feet with visibility above and below. Visibility was put at six miles.

Every one of the 44 passengers and six crew members was killed. Bodies were strewn over the hillside and many had been tossed among scrub oaks, under brush and rocks in a nearby ravine known as Dry Gulch Canyon. Great chunks of metal were blown over a several-acre area of a hayfield on the hill's slopes. The main part of the fuselage was piled into a growth of poison oak, forming a heap that burned brightly and started grass fires.

Elsewhere was a piece of metal that probably was the plane's nose. Dozens of smaller fragments were tossed about over a half-mile area. Air mail letters hung on the shrubs and thousands of letters and packages were blown about and it seemed likely some will never be found.

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