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Fire in the sky: 50 years ago, a jetliner carrying 42 people fell out of a stormy sky near Falls City
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Fire in the sky: 50 years ago, a jetliner carrying 42 people fell out of a stormy sky near Falls City
- Peter Salter
- Aug 1, 2016
- Aug 1, 2016 Updated Aug 3, 2019
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- 12 min to read
Pieces of the plane's tail and wing broke off mid-flight, and landed up to three-quarters of a mile from the fuselage.
BILL SCHOCK, Courtesy photo
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FALLS CITY -- The night the sky exploded and scarred her family's farmland, Judy Schawang was in the back seat, eyes closed.
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The wreckage of Flight 250 was still smoking the day after it crashed northeast of Falls City.
UPI file photo
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Stakes mark the spots where bodies were found at the site of the Braniff Flight 250 crash 50 years ago. All 42 people on board died.
Journal Star file photo
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A Braniff BAC 1-11, the type of aircraft that crashed north of Falls City on Aug. 6, 1966, as it traveled from Kansas City to Omaha.
Courtesy photo
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The National Guard was called to help move the bodies of the Flight 250 crash victims to a temporary morgue at Prichard Auditorium in Falls City.
AP file photo
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What remained of Flight 250 was still smoldering the day after it crashed north of Falls City.
BILL SCHOCK, Courtesy photo
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Some of the victims of Braniff Flight 250.
AP file photo
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Flight 250's crew: Capt. Donald Pauly (clockwise, top left), First Officer James A. Hilliker, Flight Attendant Sharon Hendricks and Flight Attendant Ginger Brisbane.
AP file photo
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Bill Schock was celebrating his 48th birthday the night Flight 250 tumbled out of the sky north of Falls City and became the biggest story in his 70-year journalism career. The memorial marking the crash site contains a piece of the aircraft, planted in the dirt between the signposts.
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
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The lives aboard
Much of the initial coverage contained incorrect or incomplete information, especially when it came to the names of the passengers and crew. Jerry Penry, a Lincoln-area historian who has researched Flight 250, believes he’s assembled the most accurate list.
The crew
Donald G. Pauly (pilot), 47, Minneapolis
James A. Hilliker (co-pilot), 39, Bloomington, Minnesota
Sharon E. Hendricks (stewardess), 21, Sawyer, North Dakota
Ginger E. Brisbane (stewardess), 21, Minneapolis
The passengers
Pvt. Larry J. Bosted, 19, Omaha
Andrew D. Broadfoot, 54, Omaha
Nancy A. Chamblin, 18, Fort Smith, Arkansas
Susan C. Chamblin, 15, Fort Smith, Arkansas
Pvt. Danny Ray Cox, 18, Omaha
Pvt. Ronald L. Deines, 19, Bayard
Jeanae C. Duerksen, 22, Bridgewater, South Dakota
Ava Dyer, 46, Washington, D.C.
Donald L. Eschbach, 44, Omaha
Kenneth Eskelinen, 25, Omaha
Master Sgt. Donald Ferraro, 34, Bellevue
Leslie David Foster, 41, Omaha
Patricia L. Gilbertson, 21, Little Rock, Arkansas
Lyman M. Graeber, 61, Spring Park, Minnesota
Lottie Gummers, 46, Omaha
Mary Kay Hamm, 16, Houston
Susan R. Hamm, 17, Houston
Pvt. Charles E. Howard Jr., 21, Omaha
Pvt. Russell E. Hudson, 19, Jackson, Mississippi
Patricia Jacobson, 21, Fargo, North Dakota
Pvt. William O. Johnson, 23, Glen Fora, Wisconsin
Cheryl Lyn Jordan, 21, Minneapolis
Pvt. Bohdan Kowtaliw, 18, Chicago
Ruth Kuhr, 32, Omaha
Mitchel L. Kuhr, 5, Omaha
Pvt. Eugene P. McConnell, 18, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Adolf Mayer, 64, Omaha
Mrs. Morgan Mills, 51, Gonzales, Texas
Pvt. William Murphy, 19, Sauk Village, Illinois
John H. Paul, 44, Overland Park, Kansas
Sgt. Garrett G. Redington, 32, Mason City, Iowa
Grace B. Roettger, 56, Decatur, Texas
Donald R. Smith, 39, Bellevue
Virginia Tejada, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Charla J. Ward, 16, Omaha
Robert D. Welter, 19, Des Moines, Iowa
Frank A. Wilson, 40, Fremont
Donald K. Wright, Omaha
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The wreckage of Flight 250 was still smoking the day after it crashed northeast of Falls City.
- UPI file photo
Stakes mark the spots where bodies were found at the site of the Braniff Flight 250 crash 50 years ago. All 42 people on board died.
- Journal Star file photo
Bill Schock was celebrating his 48th birthday the night Flight 250 tumbled out of the sky north of Falls City and became the biggest story in his 70-year journalism career. The memorial marking the crash site contains a piece of the aircraft, planted in the dirt between the signposts.
- GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
The National Guard was called to help move the bodies of the Flight 250 crash victims to a temporary morgue at Prichard Auditorium in Falls City.
- AP file photo
Pieces of the plane's tail and wing broke off mid-flight, and landed up to three-quarters of a mile from the fuselage.
- BILL SCHOCK, Courtesy photo
A Braniff BAC 1-11, the type of aircraft that crashed north of Falls City on Aug. 6, 1966, as it traveled from Kansas City to Omaha.
- Courtesy photo
What remained of Flight 250 was still smoldering the day after it crashed north of Falls City.
- BILL SCHOCK, Courtesy photo
Some of the victims of Braniff Flight 250.
- AP file photo
Judy Schawang Hanna
- Courtesy photo
Flight 250's crew: Capt. Donald Pauly (clockwise, top left), First Officer James A. Hilliker, Flight Attendant Sharon Hendricks and Flight Attendant Ginger Brisbane.
- AP file photo
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