Ogura in Japan, killing 520 passengers and crew members. His soldiers and trucks were needed, and Jones was rolling north with eight to 10 volunteers within the hour. It just kind of ran full circle.. Jerry Penry photo. It was not established that the weather was a significant factor in the accident, however, it was a contributing factor. A2C Robert D. Welter - Des Moines, IA - 19 Accident Description. Kenneth Eskelinen - Omaha, NE - 25 There was some indication that something wasnt right, said longtime employee Omer Kuhlmann. M/Sgt. Andrew D. Broadfoot - Omaha, NE - 54 PROBABLE CAUSE: The committee found that the probable cause if this accident was the unwanted application of rudder to the extent that the resultant loads exceeded ultimate on the vertical fin and right side of the tailplane. Donald K. Wright - Omaha, NE LINCOLN JOURNAL STARARTICLE 7/31/2016 Flight 250 likely tumbled at first, but then fell, in a flat spin, out of the sky above the Schawang farm. Pvt. "Airline Lists PassengersMt. 9/2/2013. LINCOLN JOURNAL STARARTICLE 7/31/2016 Toncontn International Airport (IATA: TGU, ICAO: MHTG) or Teniente Coronel Hernn Acosta Meja Airport is a civil and military airport located 6 km (4 mi) from the centre of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.. Pvt. While in Kansas City, Captain Pauly discussed the weather with the captain of another Braniff flight which had just arrived from Chicago. Accident Database. (PTI) At least 15 people, including a pilot, were killed after an Air India Express aircraft skidded off the runway and fell into a 30-feet valley at Kerala's Kozhikode airport late Friday evening. Pvt. The downing earlier this month of multiple unidentified flying objects over U.S. airways, including one over Lake Huron, drew a lot of attention and speculation. Braniff Airways N1553 Near Falls City, Neb. Rex Jones, the full-time administrator of Falls Citys National Guard unit, was returning from his brother's barbecue when he saw the flash. Lottie Gummers - Omaha, NE - 46 I am going there to prepare a place for you. Virginia Tejada - Guatemala City, Guatemala Two sets of teenage sisters were aboard - Susan and Nancy Chamblin, ages 15 and 18, and Mary Kay and Susan Hamm, ages 16 and 17. Estimates of the velocity varied from 30 to 60 miles per hour at different locations in the area. November 10, 2022. Flight 250 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to Minneapolis with stops at Shreveport, Fort Smith, Tulsa, Kansas City, and Omaha. Eugene P. McConnell - Council Bluffs, IA - 18 50th Anniversary Photos ----------------------------------------- 11-06-2015. Witnesses in the area of the crash indicated that they saw the aircraft approach from the southeast with everything appearing to be normal. Accident Description. "Saturday 5 March 1966." -124 (89 US). Ruth Kuhr - Omaha, NE - 32 Jerry Penry photo. After some discussion with ARTCC about the weather the flight crew advised that they would like to maintain 5,000 feet to Omaha. And they watched what looked like part of a plane falling with the flames. The horse was spooked -- snorting, pacing, turning in circles -- but still there. Looking southeast. By 1966, commercial air travel in Nebraska was nearly 40 years old, with an average of 216 daily departures and arrivals across the state. So we monitored the squawk box.. Lee County (62), NC/5, VA/1145-146, 2022 Sep 4, floatplane crash in Puget Sound off Whidbey Island, WA all 10, 2022 July 27-28 downpour, flash flooding, eastern KY, esp. Some of the victims of Braniff Flight 250. Sharon E. Hendricks (stewardess) - Sawyer, ND - 21 Cover of the accident report. (AP) A pilot and a passenger in a small airplane were killed when the plane crashed in a rural area near North Platte in central Nebraska, officials said. About four minutes later, Flight 250 entered an updraft within an area of active squall line of severe thunderstorms. All the witnesses were sure that the aircraft did not penetrate the main line of thunderstorms which was northwest of the area in which the accident occurred. (NTSB 1968, pp. Our office has microfilm of indexes to passenger lists of vessels arriving at the Port of New York for the years 1820-1846 and 1897-1943. Oklahoma is no stranger to disasters, but it's normally natural disasters that make national headlines for the Sooner State. Donald K. Wright - Omaha, NE Dr. Ted Fujita, a renowned weather researcher and professor of meteorology at the University of Chicago, was hired by British Aircraft Corporation, the manufacturer of the BAC 1-11, to study how the weather affected the jet. Danny Ray Cox - Omaha, NE - 18 Two other air carrier flights had negotiated the same storm a short time earlier without undue discomfort. Pvt. Strangers before the night the sky exploded. William Murphy, 19, Sauk Village, Illinois, Sgt. por . The National Transportation Safety Board said the single-engine plane crashed around 9:30 a.m. There was a difference here: He could see JoAnn in her coffin and he could get closure from that, something he never was able to find in the loss of Jean. Jerry Penry photo. This is hilly country, west of the Missouri River in Richardson County, and their farm was beyond another rise. She lives near the Black Hills. Tom Redington was only 3, too young to remember hearing the news of the crash, too young to even remember his father, Garrett. Nancy A. Chamblin - Fort Smith, AR - 18 Following takeoff and after some discussion with the air route traffic controller regarding the weather, the crew requested and received clearance to proceed toward Omaha at 5,000 feet. List of Notable Accidents and Incidents on Commercial Aircraft. Accessed 12-15-2008 at: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-notable-accidents-and-incidents-on-commercial-aircraft, National Transportation Safety Board. http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR68-AL.pdf, National Transportation Safety Board. PASSENGERS Pvt. Faith. August 17, 2022 / 7:22 AM / CBS/AP. 11-06-2015. Jerry Penry photo. The AP called back moments later: Maybe we weren't clear. There had been private plane crashes and military plane . Loren Duerksen was 8 and watching a rodeo in Deadwood with his family when his father was paged over the loudspeaker. Donald Ferraro - Bellevue, NE - 34 Flight 250's crew: Capt. The engines were taken to Kansas City to be studied, and 2,000 pounds of key debris -- including the planes instruments and hydraulics -- were analyzed in Dallas. M/Sgt. Donald G. Pauly (pilot) - Minneapolis, MN - 47 Her brothers back in Bridgewater traveled to Falls City with the town's undertaker to identify and retrieve her body. Pvt. There were 74 passengers and five crew members on board. Sign placed in 2006 for the 40th Anniversary. The crash near Falls City was the first major event for an aircraft of this type. It's going to crash at Joseph Lippolds place, her mother said. Kenneth Eskelinen - Omaha, NE - 25 Patricia Jacobson - Fargo, ND - 21 Jeanae C. Duerksen - Bridgewater, SD - 22 Russell E. Hudson, 19, Jackson, Mississippi, Patricia Jacobson, 21, Fargo, North Dakota, Pvt. The captain of this latter flight stated, I told him this was a solid line of very intense thunderstorms with continuous lightning and no apparent breaks, as long and mean a one as Id seen in a long time and I didnt feel the radar reports gave a true picture of the intensity. Captain Pauly replied that he hoped to be west of the line. There were no survivors. A2C Robert D. Welter - Des Moines, IA - 19 The fireball disappeared behind the horizon, so they didnt see the impact. Trust in God; trust also in me. At 2303 the Kansas City ARTCC initiated a transfer of control of the flight to the Chicago ARTCC but before the transfer could be accomplished the flight requested and received permission from the Kansas City controller to deviate to the left of course. Information on the flight data recorder indicated a rush of air sound in the aircraft approximately 28 seconds before impact. Flight 250 terminated this conversation at approximately 2308:30. Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London, via Delhi, Beirut, and Geneva. N717RL Aircraft Accident Jackson, MS. November 13, 2012. (Caption incorrectly lists 41 deaths instead of 42). Due to wreckage being found up to one mile away, it was evident that the aircraft began coming apart in flight. Mrs. Morgan Mills - Gonzales, TX - 51 M/Sgt. The incident dramatically increased tensions . Pvt. Donald R. Smith - Bellevue, NE - 39 Accessed at: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=23859&key=0. The captain instead elected to continue the flight into the edges of the squall line.[6]. She did a good job.. I don't know if my mom would have ever gotten over it if we would have stayed there.. A review of the Braniff training procedures was made to determine the nature of the training given aircrews and flight dispatchers regarding operation in or near areas where turbulence exists or is forecast. William Murphy - Sauk Village, IL - 19 James A. Hilliker (pilot) - Bloomington, MN - 39 Those pictures help people put a face on the tragedy, said Weber, who is trying to raise money . NTSB Identification: DCA67A0001Aug 06, 1966 in Falls City, NE. In my father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. Pvt. In my father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. . On the morning of 24 January 1966 at 8:02 CET, on approach to Geneva, the Boeing 707 operating the flight accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France, killing all 117 people on board. 1966: Passenger jet crashes into Mount Fuji. They gathered at the site, attended church and visited with locals who wanted to share where they were and what they saw when Flight 250 fell out of their sky. The list below is more accurate than the newspaper list, but probably still has a few errors which are trying to be worked out. The three drove south through the storms, Kuhlmann said, a news reporter tailgating them the whole way. Advertisement. Looking southeast. Patricia L. Gilbertson - Little Rock, AR - 21 1) by Macarthur Job, illustrated by Matthew Tesch, and also in Deadly Turbulence: The Air Safety Lessons of Braniff Flight 250 and Other Airliners, 1959-1966, by Steve Pollock. The Richardson County Historical Society is hosting a Remembrance Gathering for Flight 250 on the 50th anniversary of Nebraskas worst commerc, When a commercial airliner crashes these days, it is standard practice to focus on retrieving the flight data and cockpit voice recorders to a. The aircraft took off from Detroit Metropolitan . The records are arranged by port or airport of arrival. All military transport accidents with 10 or more . Two older brothers had stayed home in Bridgewater, South Dakota, to run Duerksen Produce, so they assumed there was some trouble with the business. Susan C. Chamblin - Fort Smith, AR - 15 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." I couldn't believe people still gave a damn after 40 years.. July 4, 2021. A line of thunderstorms had developed and was stretching across Southeast Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. Andrew D. Broadfoot - Omaha, NE - 54 Witnesses in the area of the accident reported that they observed the aircraft approach and either fly into or over a shelf of clouds preceding a line of thunderstorms that was approaching from the north and northwest. Just prior to takeoff, the flight was restricted to 5,000 feet until further advised due to conflicting traffic. This story from the Associated Press appeared in many newspapers across the nation on August 8, 1966. Susan C. Chamblin - Fort Smith, AR - 15 Mitchel L. Kuhr - Omaha, NE - 5 EMAIL(Click Above). Mangalore plane crash / aviation safety / air and space accident Virginia Tejada - Guatemala City, Guatemala 1966 Aug 6, Plane breaks-up, extreme turbulence, Braniff Flight 250, ~Falls City, NE-42 . State Patrolman Marvin Gifford had pulled over a truck on U.S. 73 when he saw a big ball of fire and headed toward the scene. 42 Aviation Safety Network. Nebraska. Ruth Kuhr - Omaha, NE - 32 They learned a plane had gone down, and then they learned it was Flight 250. Donald Ferraro - Bellevue, NE - 34 The three of them watched the dark outside their car windows turn a bright orange, a fire in the sky illuminating the countryside. EMAIL(Click Above). (Caption incorrectly lists 41 deaths instead of 42). He would think about that when he buried another sister, taken by ALS. Sgt. The China Eastern flight from the city of Kunming in . Frank A. Wilson - Fremont, NE - 40 Pvt. I told my wife Ill be getting a phone call shortly, he remembered recently. EMAIL(Click Above), The crash of Braniff Airways Flight No. - Jerry Penry collection. It took a little while to get over it, Kuhlmann said. The U.S. television drama Mad Men referenced this accident briefly in the season 5 episode "Signal 30". UPI. We weren't well off, and this was pretty special., The rest of the family had moved to Washington at about the same time. Andrew D. Broadfoot - Omaha, NE - 54 According to the NTSB report, he had two type ratings in the BAC-1-11 and the Convair family. If the flight control system had been functioning normally, then the rudder could not have been at full travel at fin failure or for that matter, at any time the speed the aircraft was flying. Larry J. Bosted - Omaha, NE - 19 The crews of the two aircraft exchanged weather information and the crew of Flight 255 advised that they had encountered light to moderate chop from about 15 miles southeast of the Omaha airport and that it appeared they would be out of it in another 10 miles based on their radar observations. The flight was without incident to Kansas City. [4] It departed Kansas City at 22:55 on an IFR clearance to Omaha at FL200 (20,000 feet (6,100m)). It lasted a good 30 seconds.. I am going there to prepare a place for you. William O. Johnson - Glen Fora, WI - 23 However, the crew asked if they could remain at 5,000 feet (1,520m) because of the weather. Larry J. Bosted - Omaha, NE - 19 Associated Press photo. List of names according to the Associated Press on 8/8/1966. A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-89P passenger plane lands at Hong Kong International Airport in this August 1, 2018 file photo. The world is coming to an end.'. All of this happened on a stormy Saturday night 50 years ago. at 2312 c.s.t., August 6, 1966. Donald L. Eschbach - Omaha, NE - 44 The list below is more accurate than the newspaper list, but probably still has a few errors which are trying to be worked out. In fact I cried quite a few times over that but after awhile I just loved the place.. We did.. 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NebraskaAirCrash.comJerry PenryLincoln, Nebraska nisswa mayor fred heidmann democrat Uncategorized. A few years earlier, a prison escapee from Kansas had ended up on their farm, and Tony Schawang and his brothers had traded gunfire with the man before rounding him up and giving him to the sheriff. Lottie Gummers - Omaha, NE - 46 Sharon E. Hendricks (stewardess) - Sawyer, ND - 21 The committee found that the aircraft had been properly maintained by Braniff and the flight was properly dispatched. The aircraft involved was a British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) 1-11 (One-Eleven) twin rear engine with tail number N 1553. At 11:08, the crew traded weather information with a Braniff pilot whod just departed Omaha. Grace B. Roettger - Decatur, TX - 56 Grace B. Roettger - Decatur, TX - 56 Ward - Omaha, NE - 16 The flight crew was properly qualified and trained for the flight. The soldiers and investigators and company officials soon left the Schawang farm. Charles E. Howard, Jr. - Omaha, NE - 21 [3][16] A fiftieth anniversary memorial event,[17] planned by the county's historical society, was attended by a hundred in 2016.[16]. It was kind of surreal, Hilliker said. Others from a different perspective stated that the aircraft instead went above this cloud. In Kansas City, its pilot, Capt. Washington, DC: NTSB, Adopted April 18, 1968, 84 pages. But she did something remarkable. The flight remained at 6000 feet until permission was received at 23:06 to descend to 5000 feet. October 29, 1968. Susan R. Hamm - Houston, TX - 17 The wind ripped the plane apart. Eugene P. McConnell, 18, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Pvt. 42 NTSB. He'll be joined by Hilliker, who lost his father, too, and by Duerksen, who lost his sister, and by Kuhlmann, the Braniff employee on the scene, and by Jones, the National Guard sergeant, and by Hanna, who watched the flames and felt the heat, and by dozens of others. Judy picked up the phone and dialed. The plane tumbled down in flames until stabilizing into a flat spinning-attitude before impacting the ground. Amongst the 117 passengers killed was noted . He met the families of passengers. Eugene P. McConnell - Council Bluffs, IA - 18 The flaming aircraft fell to the ground at approximately 2312 c.s.t. Something crashed and theres a fire, she said. The probable cause was in-flight structural failure caused by extreme turbulence during operation of the aircraft in an area of avoidable hazardous weather.[6]. The flight was without reported incident from New Orleans to Kansas City. 42 NationMaster.com. Prior to leaving Kansas City, the crew of Flight 250 was supplied with a copy of the latest severe weather bulletin. The dispatcher handling Flight 250 at the time of the accident testified that he did not believe it was necessary to pass on to Flight 250 the information concerning the diversion of Flight 234 because of the considerable distance between their respective flight paths. The University of North Dakota graduate joined the Journal Star in 1998. Encyclopedia. Associated Press photo. Larry J. Bosted - Omaha, NE - 19 What remained of Flight 250 was still smoldering the day after it crashed north of Falls City. If you knew her father, she said, you wouldn't be surprised by what Tony Schawang did next. No, the Chicago air traffic control center told them. October 29, 1968. At the time of departure from Kansas City, a line of thunderstorms oriented in a southwest to northeast direction was in the vicinity of southeast Nebraska that extended into Missouri and Iowa. The cockpit crew consisted of Captain Donald Pauly, 47, and First Officer James Hilliker, 39. Cover of the accident report. It takes awhile. Extensive investigation was conducted specifically looking at the weather as a factor and also possible structural failure of the aircraft. A Boeing 707 has crashed into Mount Fuji in Japan killing all 124 people on board. We need help. At daybreak, the remains were collected by undertakers, wrapped first in plastic sheets and then in body bags brought in from Fort Riley, Kansas. 250 on August 6, 1966, is the worst commercial aircraft accident in the State of Nebraska. Buried in Alps after 1966 plane crash, Made in India gems on show soon These were part of the wreckage of a Mumbai-Geneva Air India passenger flight that crashed near the Mont Blanc summit on January 24, 1966, and killed all 117 passengers aboard, including nuclear scientist Homi Jehangir Bhabha. I am going there to prepare a place for you. why is my cookies pen blinking purple is there mobile coverage across the nullarbor plane crash august 1966 sisters. Lyman M. Graeber - Spring Park, MN - 61 Ages follow the city. [6] At23:08, the crew contacted a Braniff flight that had just departed Omaha's Eppley Airfield, which reported moderate to light turbulence. Since the flight data recorder (FDR) was destroyed in the crash,[15] the changes in the buffeting sound would later be used to estimate the airplane's changes in speed and altitude during the accident sequence. A few seconds later: The rush and whistle of air, then four clangs of the plane's stall warning, the last of them cut short. PROBABLE CAUSE: The committee found that the probable cause if this accident was the unwanted application of rudder to the extent that the resultant loads exceeded ultimate on the vertical fin and right side of the tailplane. Pvt. Pvt. The fire was attributed to the failure of the wing which contained the fuel. But their bean field was burning when they got home, the flames just a few hundred feet east of their house. Additionally, there was no evidence of an in-flight fire on any of the components recovered outside the main wreckage area. The dispatchers were aware that Flight 255 had delayed its takeoff from Sioux City because of the terminal weather at Omaha. NebraskaAirCrash.comJerry PenryLincoln, Nebraska . Judy Schawang remembers the tangle of temporary phone cords snaking around their farmhouse, and she remembers her father's insistence the next day. The cloud height was estimated to be from one to two thousand feet above the ground. The plane pitched forward and the right wing failed. It's been 35 years since Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed onto I-94, killing all but one passenger. The location of the crash 3.5 miles east and 8 miles north of Falls City, Nebraska - Google Earth image. Ava Dyer - Washington D.C. - 46 William Murphy - Sauk Village, IL - 19 Her son had already been dead a month when the telegram made it to Chadron two days before Christmas 1943. Ward - Omaha, NE - 16 Susan C. Chamblin - Fort Smith, AR - 15 Sign placed in 2006 for the 40th Anniversary. Eugene P. McConnell - Council Bluffs, IA - 18 NORTH PLATTE, Neb. A Boeing 727-22 passenger plane, registered N68650, was destroyed in an accident at Hendersonville, NC, United States of America. Mary Kay Hamm - Houston, TX - 16 Radar contact was confirmed and the flight was cleared to climb to and maintain FL 200. The BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) plane plunged into the wooded slopes of the dormant volcano, 25 minutes after taking off from Tokyo International Airport. On Sunday, the Journal Star told the story of Braniff Flight 250, which plummeted to the ground near Falls City 50 years ago, and introduced y. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteriapassenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb . "All on Plane Are Dead in Crash into Japan's Fuji" 3-6-1966, p. 1. Braniff regulations prohibit a plane from being dispatched into an area with a solid line of thunderstorms; however the company forecast was somewhat inaccurate with respect to the number and intensity of thunderstorms and the intensity of the associated turbulence. (ASN. The 38 passengers and 4 crewmembers aboard the aircraft died in the accident and the aircraft was destroyed. 11-06-2015.John 14:1-3"Do not let your hearts be troubled. I am going there to prepare a place for you. There had been private plane crashes and military plane crashes but never a loss of life on a commercial flight. NYT. CREW Flight 250 broke into pieces nearly a mile above Richardson County, and then its fuel exploded, and then it fell to the earth in a shower of flames. The flight was meant to be a non-stop journey from Chicago to Los Angeles, but it never left the . Extensive investigation was conducted specifically looking at the weather as a factor and also possible structural failure of the aircraft. 20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas . The flying time was approximately 1 hour 30 minutes each way, and the passenger fare was $15 one way and $25 roundtrip. FIND A GRAVEThe above link shows the known grave sites of those who died. Donald G. Pauly (pilot) - Minneapolis, MN - 47 Please contact me if you can correct an error. 11-06-2015. [6][7], The aircraft was a BAC 1-11-203AE, registration N1553[8]. Page 1 of the accident report. Pvt. 4-5), The accident occurred at night with a nearly full moon visible before the cloud shelf obscured the moon and stars.. Evidence from the wreckage showed that the powered flight control system could not have been operating normally. Mrs. Morgan Mills - Gonzales, TX - 51 Adolf Mayer - Omaha, NE - 64 My father was a very strong Catholic, and when it came time to go to church Sunday morning, they had the road blocked off. Jeanae C. Duerksen - Bridgewater, SD - 22 Bohdan Kowtaliw - Chicago, IL - 18 The crash location as indicated by the blue star. Looking southeast. The National Guard moved the remains to a temporary morgue at Prichard Auditorium in Falls City, and into three refrigerated trucks a few days later. Two other air carrier flights had negotiated the same storm a short time earlier without undue discomfort. It was something that had to be done.. Sign placed in 2006 for the 40th Anniversary. Also, specific thunderstorm and turbulence penetration instruction is not given in the BAC 1-11 simulator although some turbulence is given the pilots during their training. UPS1354 Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Birmingham, AL. Dad came back and told us there had been a plane accident.. 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. List of passengers on Air India Express flight May 22, 2010 11:09 am | Updated November 11, 2016 05:58 am IST . The passenger lists themselves are available at . The flight crew was properly qualified and trained for the flight. The plane was carrying 133 passengers from Kunming to Guangzhou, reported Chinese state television. Stakes mark the spots where bodies were found at the site of the Braniff Flight 250 crash 50 years ago. Around 11:12 p.m., this flight, with 38 passengers and a flight crew of 4, crashed approximately 8 miles northeast of Falls City. The fire was attributed to the failure of the wing which contained the fuel. plane crash august 1966 passenger list. Eugene P. McConnell - Council Bluffs, IA - 18 Reach the writer at 402-473-7254 or psalter@journalstar.com. Flight Officer James A. Hilliker, one of the two pilots, was a veteran of WWII. Sharon E. Hendricks (stewardess) - Sawyer, ND - 21 - Nebraska Department of Roads map. Within weeks, Judy Hanna approved the placement of a marker on her land and her relatives who live there helped build a monument. I think my mom had her fill, said Judy (Schawang) Hanna. List of names according to the Associated Press on 8/8/1966. 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. He felt the embrace of a community connected by a single violent moment. Witnesses closest to the impact testified that in the light of the fireball they could see the aircraft, tail low, right wing low, slowly rotating about its vertical axis with the left wing tip following the tail as it fell. But then he found himself watching his daughter play volleyball at Prichard Auditorium. 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