One of the earliest documented aircraft wash racks—a structure similar to a drive-through car wash—was built in 1953 at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas. There the problem was ...

The flight had departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. There were apparently no witnesses to the crash. Efforts by the Coast Guard and the Air Force to find the jet were unsuccessful.

It was a cold, raw day with a dirty overcast sulking overhead. No more than a dozen Air Force men were on hand to watch the big B50 lift slowly up from the Carswell Air Force Base, head northeast ...