Down in Abilene a news flash aired on all local stations, and was picked up five minutes later by the national major broadcast networks and cable news stations.
“An Air Force B1-B ‘Lancer’ has reportedly crashed after takeoff three miles northeast of Dyess Air Force Base next to a freeway in Abilene this morning at 10:50 AM central daylight time,” KTXS-TV, Channel 12 reporter Marcie Carroll, a former Apache Belle for Tyler Junior College (JUCO), and Southern Methodist University (SMU) Journalism grad, originally from Alto, Texas, who had been with the station only three months, but being “low man on the totem pole,” was designated for in-studio duty on Saturday and Sunday mornings, the likelihood being that she only would report on breaking news regarding weather alerts, notably tornado w
