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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.

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Farrell'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...

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U.S. report lays Farrell’s crash blame to pilot’s training lack

The probable cause of the fiery crash of a jet fighter into Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant last fall, killing 22 persons, was “inadequate pilot proficiency in the aircraft.”

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Tragic decision: Death was waiting at family party

Warren Krier would have been 32 yesterday – but his family decided to celebrate Sunday. At Farrell’s.

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Heart-breaking task

“There are going to be empty desks in school tomorrow . . .”

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Employee recalls disaster

Don McClusky’s four-to-midnight shift at Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant lasted only 40 minutes yesterday. It ended amid flames, smoke, flying debris and the cries of injured and dying men,...

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Plane tragedies come too often for reporter living near airport

“There goes another siren,” my wife said just as we finished Sunday dinner. “I don’t want to know about it,” I said, only half in jest. “I don’t need to cover another airplane crash.”

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‘I’m sorry,’ cried pilot after crash

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” cried Richard Bingham, the 36-year-old pilot whose reconstructed gold, blue and white Korean War F-86 Sabrejet had just plunged into Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour Restaurant.

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‘Where’s 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--...

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From 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,...

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Ice 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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