This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/8038 Message Board Post: Sgt. Savage Dies In Plane Crash Staff Sgt.W. R. Savage, assigned to the 6516th Flight Line Maintenance Sqd. (Jet) Edwards Air Force Base and a resident of Mojave, was killed Sunday March 25 in a crash of an XB 51 at Bigg's Air Force Base, EI Paso, Texas. Pilot of the plane which was being ferried to Eglin AFB Florida, Major James O. Rudolph, was seriously injured and is now undergoing treatment at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. His wife, Clara, was flown to his bedside by special flight from Edwards A.F.B. S/Sgt Savage was a veteran of 10 years military service and is formerly from Dawnsville, Ga. He is survived by his widow, Ida, and three children, Ida, Ruth and Jerry Lee. They formerly lived at 625 K Street, Mojave. Funeral arrangements are pending. Major Rudolph is a veteran of 50 World War ITI combat missions and is currently assigned to the bomber operations branch AFFTC Edwards,. Calif. He is a graduate of USAF Flight Test Pilot's School The two men had just taken off from Biggs AFB and immediately after becoming airborne, the plane dropped to the ground, struck a railroad track, exploded and burned. Investigators are probing the wreckage to determine the cause of the crash. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 29 Mar 1956