A B-36 from Carswell Air Base and an F-51 plane collided about 50 airline miles northeast of Oklahoma City early Friday afternoon and at least six men were believed killed.

    First report of the crash came from an Associated Press dispatch that quoted an unidentified airman.

    The report was later confirmed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration.  A CAA spokesman said the planes were down about three miles south of Perkins and that "six or seven bodies were found nearby".

    Oklahoma highway patrolmen picked up four men who parachuted, the spokesman said, and searchers were sent to the scene to look for other personnel.

   The same source said that the B-36 and the fighter plane were engaged in a training operation.

    Four fighter ships were practicing interception maneuvers against the big bomber when one apparently came too close and crashed into the B-36, the spokesman said.

    The bomber disintegrated as it fell, a pilot, radioing an eye-witness account of the mishap said.  The pilot said he counted several chutes blossoming from the bomber.

    The pilot fixed the time of the crash at between 1:25 and 1:30 p.m.

    J.J. Floyd, Perkins, Okla., gasoline truck driver, saw the fuselage of the airplane fall to the ground.

    "The big part burst into flames as soon as it hit the ground," Floyd said.  "I saw two men in parachutes, but they haven't been picked up yet".  Some said seven parachuted.

    " One man was found dead in the road with only one shoe on,"  he said,  "The plane was burning so badly I couldn't get close".

    Four Fort Worth airmen, the only survivors of a B-36D which crashed in northern Oklahoma Friday, said Saturday they came tumbling out of their disabled ship so fast they didn't take time to notice much of anything.

    But strange thoughts ranged through their minds as they stepped out into 20,000 feet of space after their bomber was rammed by a fighter plane during a routine bombing run and fighter interception training mission.

    Tech. Sgt. Ellis E. Maxon, 31, of 104 Lockwood, who was a scanner on the plane said:  "After the collision, I took my hat and put it in my right pocket because I thought it would be hot on the ground."

OTHER SURVIVORS

    The other survivors are 1st. Lt. Elroy A. Melberg, 32, of 516 Yount, flight engineer;  Master Sgt. W.M. Blair, 31, of 4117 Surrey, crew chief, and Tech. Sgt. Dick Thrasher of 4421 Sandage, gunnery instructor.

    Doctors at Tinker Air Base hospital, where the men were taken after the crash, said that none was suffering from anything worse than cuts and bruises.  They were to be returned to their home base of Carswell Saturday.  Lt. Col. J.F. Burnett arrived here at noon in a C-45 from Carswell to fly them back.

    The quartet told their experiences in a hospital interview with an Air Force public information officer, who asked questions submitted to him by newspapermen.  Reporters were not allowed to question them personally.

IN AFT COMPARTMENT.

    All four were in the aft compartment of the plane which crashed near Perkins.  Thrasher, Maxon and Blair left the disabled ship through escape hatches.  But Melberg, who was off duty as flight engineer, came out through a gash in the fuselage.  After parachuting to the ground, all four were able to walk away.

    Thrasher was first out of the plane.  As his chute billowed into the wind he saw the white silk of three other parachutes below him as the others left the plane at lower altitudes.  He drifted over a town he thought to be Tryon, in the immediate crash vicinity.  When he thudded onto the ground he found three or four autos waiting for him - townsmen who saw him coming down.

    Luck ran out Friday for Capt. Harold Leslie Barry, pilot of the B-36 that fell in an Oklahoma air collision.

    Barry, 31, was pilot of a B-36 that crashed in British Columbia in February 1950.  Five men were lost in that accident.

    Barry also brought a B-36 home to Carswell with three of the six engines out in July 1949.

    His wife, Mrs. Anna Barry, was under a doctor's care Saturday at their home, 1708 Lawther Dr., River Oaks.