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 * 1950 British Columbia B-36 crash


 * Jim Hall (race car driver)


 * in 1953 the wreckage of the B-36 strategic bomber was discovered by an RCAF plane during the search for the missing plane of the Texas millionaire oilman Ellis Hall.


 * a month before he started at the California Institute of Technology (better known as Caltech) the family was hit by tragedy when his father, mother and sister were killed in a light aeroplane accident.


 * In training for the family oil business, he studied geology at Cal Tech., but switched to mechanical engineering after a plane crash claimed the lives of his parents and sister.