So the parents come over for the Easter weekend and they hadn't watched Bridge of Spies, so we que it up. As we're waiting for the rest of the family to gather around my dad starts telling of being the first on the scene at a U-2 crash in 1957 while driving home from Abilene. He said as he was passing close to Ft. Phantom Lake this strange looking plane comes flying over about 100 feet over the road and about 400 yards off the road the plane hits the ground.
He jumps out of the car, jumps a fence and runs to the wreckage. A wing had broken off and the nose had hit into a small gourge and crumpled nearly to the cockpit. He said if the plane had been about 3 feet higher it likely would have simply skidded in the sand dirt. Unfortunately the pilot had died. He walks back to the road and was going to flag down the next car to send word to Ft. Dyess Air Base.
Then here comes 2 trucks full of soldiers, along with several police vehicles. He tells them what he saw, where he spotted the pilots ear that had been torn off and that the pilot was deceased. He said by the time he finished telling them what he had seen they had the entire area taped off, took down his name and contact info and that he needed to leave the area. They said they would get in touch with him, which they never did.
I've checked several sites that list all military flight crashes and found several, including one in 1957 but that one was said to be at Del Rio. I was interested to know if anyone knows other potential records where this crash might be found.
He jumps out of the car, jumps a fence and runs to the wreckage. A wing had broken off and the nose had hit into a small gourge and crumpled nearly to the cockpit. He said if the plane had been about 3 feet higher it likely would have simply skidded in the sand dirt. Unfortunately the pilot had died. He walks back to the road and was going to flag down the next car to send word to Ft. Dyess Air Base.
Then here comes 2 trucks full of soldiers, along with several police vehicles. He tells them what he saw, where he spotted the pilots ear that had been torn off and that the pilot was deceased. He said by the time he finished telling them what he had seen they had the entire area taped off, took down his name and contact info and that he needed to leave the area. They said they would get in touch with him, which they never did.
I've checked several sites that list all military flight crashes and found several, including one in 1957 but that one was said to be at Del Rio. I was interested to know if anyone knows other potential records where this crash might be found.