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1948 Waycross B-29 crash
The 1948 Waycross B-29 crash occurred on 6 October 1948〔 when an engine fire caused the crash of a Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress bomber in Waycross, Georgia. The plane was from the 3150th Electronics Squadron,〔http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1945.html〕 United States Air Force and had tail number 45-21866. The crash was after takeoff from Robins Air Force Base and killed nine of thirteen men aboard, including three RCA engineers.〔 Four men parachuted to safety. Because the flight was a secret test of the "sunseeker" (a heat-seeking device later used in the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile), the Federal government asserted the state secrets privilege to avoid having to answer a subsequent suit for damages by victims of the crash and their heirs, despite the secret device playing no role in the crash itself.
==''United States v. Reynolds''==
(詳細はSupreme Court overturned the judgment under state secrets privilege. Nevertheless, the Air Force agreed to pay an out-of-court settlement of $170,000, and decades later the declassified accident report indicated the cause to have been a fire and drop in manifold pressure in the number 1 engine, as well as an inadvertent feathering of the number 4 engine, which was not successfully unfeathered prior to the crash. The report indicated the cause of the fire in engine 1 could not be positively determined, but was likely to have been the result of breaks in the right exhaust collector ring. The report further stated that "the fire may have been aggravated by non-compliance with Technical Orders 01-20EJ-117 and 01-20EJ-178." It concluded that the aircraft was "not considered safe for flight" due to non-compliance with these orders.〔Persons, John W. "Report of Special Investigation of Aircraft Accident Involving TB-29-100XX no. 45-21866," in Appendix to ''Civil Action No. 9793: Phyllis Brauner and Elizabeth Palya v. The United States of America.'' 3 January 1949. pp 10a-24a (Web. ) Retrieved 14 April 2011.〕 A consequent lawsuit to reopen the case〔 claimed that the report's information about the cause was not secret and alleged a government coverup, but the case was not reopened.
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