Otis Air Force Base – May 8, 1957
Falmouth, Massachusetts
On May 8, 1957, Lieutenant Donald J. Flower Jr., 26, of Yonkers, New York, was killed when the fighter jet he was piloting crashed and burned upon landing at Otis AFB. He had flown to Otis from Shaw AFB in South Carolina.
The exact type of aircraft wasn’t stated.
Flower joined the Air Force in 1953 after graduating from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. He was survived by his parents and four siblings.
Source: New York Times, “Yonkers Pilot Killed”, May 10, 1957