From the Bee Archives: After 30 years, a Farrell's healing
Observers at the annual Executive Airport air show that day in 1972 said they knew the old war jet on runway 12-30 wasn't going to make it.
View ArticleFarrell's disaster claimed 22 lives
On a lovely Sunday afternoon in September 1972, a bunch of kids from the Sacramento 49ers youth football team were celebrating a dad's birthday party at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor on Freeport Boulevard...
View ArticleU.S. report lays Farrells crash blame to pilots training lack
The probable cause of the fiery crash of a jet fighter into Farrells Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant last fall, killing 22 persons, was inadequate pilot proficiency in the aircraft.
View ArticleTragic decision: Death was waiting at family party
Warren Krier would have been 32 yesterday but his family decided to celebrate Sunday. At Farrells.
View ArticleEmployee recalls disaster
Don McCluskys four-to-midnight shift at Farrells Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant lasted only 40 minutes yesterday. It ended amid flames, smoke, flying debris and the cries of injured and dying men,...
View ArticlePlane tragedies come too often for reporter living near airport
There goes another siren, my wife said just as we finished Sunday dinner. I dont want to know about it, I said, only half in jest. I dont need to cover another airplane crash.
View ArticleIm sorry, cried pilot after crash
Im sorry! Im sorry! cried Richard Bingham, the 36-year-old pilot whose reconstructed gold, blue and white Korean War F-86 Sabrejet had just plunged into Farrells Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant.
View ArticleWheres Mama?'
I wonder where Mama is, said 12-year-old Christi Kiehn last night, waiting near the emergency room of the county hospital where her injuries had been treated. Interior of Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor--...
View ArticleFrom the Bee Archives: Old jet plane kills 22 in crash into Crossroads ice...
The joyous celebration of a children's birthday party ended in screams of terror yesterday afternoon when a F86 Sabre jet slammed into Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant on Freeport Boulevard,...
View ArticleIce cream parlor tragedy nears 40th anniversary
A ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of an airplane crash into a south Sacramento ice cream parlor that killed 22 people is scheduled Sunday. Firefighters and police rescue survivors on Sept. 24,...
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