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ARMY BOMBER NEAR CRASH e ti MEXICO CITY, Mexico, June 14.— The f huge U. S. army bomber B-15 narrowly j Z. j he escaped a serious crash today when it ! slipped from the runway on its attempted j j P takeoff for Washington and slogged into ■■ j S foot-deep mud. Skillful handling by Pilot | I j S Caleb Haynes averted a serious accident to P the clostly ship which had brought the body I I P of the Mexican hero flyer Francisco Sarabia i n from Washington where he was killed when | ■, his plane crashed into the Potomac. A Pan- j 2 American Airways tractor pulled the plane back into the concrete runway. After a thor- I ough inspection had revealed no damage, it I ! it took off for San Antonio, Texas, en route to a a [the capitol, while 15,000 cheered. Passing over the Civil Cemetery, the plane dropped p a garland of flowers over Sarabias grave. General Gustavo Salinas, chief of Mexican civil aviation, expressed the thanks of the Mexican government to American Ambassa- « dor Daniels for having brought back Sar- s abias body with military honors. t to
