Francis A. Geyer of Aberdeen, Washington, and T/Sgt. Carl T. Fields of Puyallup, Washington. Two Air Force ground parties were en route to the crash site. The crash site was finally reached on 7 April. 3 April "LOS ANGELES, April 3 (AP) - Ten persons escaped unhurt today when an Air Force B-25, arriving from Phoenix, struck a ditch at the end of a Municipal airport runway and nosed over." 5 April A Soviet Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter buzzed British European Airways Vickers VC.1B Viking G-AIVP (c/n 229) on a scheduled flight to Berlin and collided with the wing of the airliner, killing the pilots of both aircraft and ten passengers on the Viking. There were 15 total fatalities. A March Air Force Base Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star crashed in a field three miles east of Chino, California, with pilot 1st Lt. James A. Reints of the 27th Fighter Squadron suffering only a sprained ankle and a head bruise in the bailout. Reints narrowly missed a house as he landed at Ely Street and Archibald Avenue; the jet crashed on Grove Avenue, near Edison Avenue. Two U.S. Marine planes and four Marine fliers were missing during night aerial manoeuvers off Barber's Point in Oahu, Hawaii, and it was assumed that they collided. The Navy suspended its search for the missing aircrew on 7 April, but 20 Marine planes continued to scan for survivors, No wreckage was found. 9 April A six-month fatality-free period at Eglin AFB, Florida, (the longest since the base opened) ended when Capt. William Robbins, 26, was killed in the crash of North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang 44-74913 in a wooded area north of Crestview, Florida. 10 April Eglin AFB experienced its second accident in two days when a Douglas A-26 Invader from Biggs AFB in El Paso, Texas, crashed in the Gulf of Mexico south of Destin, Florida. Two of the three crew survive by parachuting from stricken bomber, on temporary duty assignment for firing exercises over the Gulf. First Lieutenant John Kubo and T/Sgt. Joseph A. Riley were rescued by Eglin crash boats. T/Sgt. John E. Brizendine was listed as missing. "North Little Rock, Ark., April 11 (AP) - Two men were killed when an army AT-6 crashed here last night after radioing that the plane was running low on fuel. The dead were identified as Sgt. John N. Morris, 27, of Indianapolis and Capt. John H.