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Q: Underwater explorers say they’ve found the remnants of an Air Force plane that crashed into the eastern end of Lake Ontario more than 61 years ago while flying to Griffiss Air Force Base. 
  
 The twin-engine C-45 flew pilotless for about 65 miles after its three-member crew and two civilian passengers bailed out when one of the engines failed during a nighttime flight over Central New York in 1952. The aircraft cruised on automatic pilot for more than an hour before it crashed into the lake off Oswego, where it sat undetected for nearly 62 years. 
  
 The C-45 was on a routine flight on Sept. 11, 1952, from Bedford, Mass., to Griffiss when it crashed. The 34-foot-long airplane is still mostly intact in deep water several miles northwest of Oswego, according to sonar images. 
  
 Shipwreck explorers Jim Kennard, Roger Pawlowski and Roland Stevens discovered the aircraft while surveying a section of Lake Ontario for historic ships. 
  
 Here’s their account of what led up to the plunge into the lake: 
  
 The left engine began failing about 40 miles southeast of Utica. The aircraft started to lose altitude about eight miles from Rome. Believing the plane would crash after one engine was disabled, the pilot, Lt. Col. Charles A. Callahan, ordered his crew and passengers to parachute. Jumping at an altitude of 2,500 feet, the three Air Force officers and two civilians landed safely. 
  
 Prior to leaving the plane Callahan set the automatic pilot on a heading he believed would take it clear of any inhabited area. The aircraft, which had been headed toward the earth, was now lighter by nearly 1,000 pounds and gained altitude. The increased height changed the course of the C-45 to a northwest heading for the next hour and 10 minutes until its fuel ran out. At 11 p.m. the aircraft was reported flying very low over Oswego. 
  
 The owner and an employee of Rudy’s Refreshment Stand, west of town, saw a plane circling out over the lake just before it plunged into the water. They both reported that “a powerful light, like that of a searchlight, appeared for several seconds after the crash.” 
  
 The search for the missing plane began immediately by three Coast Guard cutters. In addition, C-45 trainers, C-47 transports, and B-25 bombers combed the crash area for two days. When there was no wreckage to be found the search was called off. 
  
 “​Very fortunate” the plane didn’t come down in Oswego, said Kennard in a telephone conversation this morning. 
  
 The news release says aboard the C-45 were: pilot Callahan; Lt. Sam Sharff; Lt. Col. G. S. Lambert; William P. Bethke, civilian technician from near Rome; and Joseph M. Eannario, civilian observer from Rome. 
  
 Kennard has been searching for shipwrecks in lakes for more than 40 years. This is the third plane he’s found. 
  
 “We knew the plane was in this area,” he said, adding its location was “much farther out in the lake than what was originally reported by witnesses.” 
  
 Kennard said the Oswego end of Lake Ontario is known to be the watery home to ships and aircraft. He and his fellow shipwreck explorers have been focusing on this section of the lake for the last three years. 
  
 ​“I’m a diver,” explained Kennard about what got him interested in looking for shipwrecks starting in 1970. “I thought it would be neat to find something nobody had been on before.” 
  
 In 1983 he discovered a unique horse-powered ferryboat in Lake Champlain. National Geographic featured the ferryboat in its October 1989 issue. In 2008 Kennard and Dan Scoville discovered the 233-year old British warship HMS Ontario on the bottom of Lake Ontario. Kennard said it is the oldest shipwreck ever found in the Great Lakes, 
  
 For fellow shipwreck explorer Pawlowski, the latest find was a special one. As a young boy, age 9, his first ride was in a B-18 aircraft, the commercial version of the C-45. Additionally, he’s a retired Air Force Reserve pilot. 
  
 The C-45 was mostly used by the Air Force for administrative duties and light transport . ||||| A U.S. Air Force C-45, the type of plane discovered in Lake Ontario near Oswego. (Photo: Provided by Shipwreckworld.com (Larry Westin Collection) ) 
  
 The last thing Lt. Col. Charles Callahan did before leaping from his plunging U.S. Air Force C-45 the evening of Sept. 11, 1952, was to set an autopilot course he hoped would guide the empty airplane to a crash landing in a remote spot where no one would be hurt. 
  
 As plane crashes go, it was a wild success. The C-45 traveled 65 miles with no one aboard and crashed in Lake Ontario near Oswego, where it was recently discovered underwater after lying undisturbed and undetected for 62 years. 
  
 The discovery was made by the shipwreck exploration team of Jim Kennard of Perinton and Roger Pawlowski of Gates, who have used sophisticated sonar equipment to find a variety of sunken vessels in the Great Lakes. They were looking for historic sunken ships when they found the airplane, much farther from shore than had been originally reported when it first crashed, according to a news release announcing the discovery. 
  
 The plane and its five-person crew was on a routine flight from Bedford, Mass., to Griffis Air Force Base near Rome when it faltered and crashed. All five people parachuted to safety; the pilotless plane buzzed over Oswego before crashing into the lake. 
  
 Pawlowski grew up in Tonawanda, Erie County, and remembered riding his bicycle to the Niagara Falls airport to watch the planes take off. One day, a pilot saw him and gave him a ride in the co-pilot's seat of a B-18, the commercial version of the C-45. 
  
 It was his first time in an airplane; he later went on to a 27-year career in the Air Force. 
  
 "It was just a guy giving a kid a ride," he said. "That went a long way toward boosting my interest in airplanes." 
  
 The 34-foot-long airplane is still mostly intact on the bottom of the lake, according to sonar images. Wrecks like that one are the property of New York state. 
  
 JMURPHY7@DemocratandChronicle.com 
  
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 Kennard has been a frequent visitor to Orleans County as a speaker at fundraising events for the Oak Orchard Lighthouse Museum. Several of his historic discoveries have been made off the coast of Lake Ontario. 
  
 Kennard and his crew were surveying for historic ships in a section of Lake Ontario off Oswego when they discovered the aircraft in deep water. 
  
 According to Kennard, the C-45 was on a routine flight Sept. 11, 1952, from Bedford, Mass., to Griffis Air Force Base near Rome, when it lost an engine 40 miles southeast of Utica. 
  
 Fearing the plane would crash after losing altitude eight miles from Rome, the pilot and crew of four parachuted out at an altitude of 2,500 feet. It was the first time any of them had jumped from an airplane. 
  
 Prior to leaving the plane, pilot Lt. Col. Charles Callahan of Monticello, Miss., set the auto pilot on a heading he believed would take it clear of any inhabited area. 
  
 With the plane now lighter by nearly 1,000 pounds, it gained altitude and changed course. It flew for the next hour and 10 minutes, until its fuel ran out. 
  
 At 11 p.m., the aircraft was reported flying very low near Oswego. The owner and an employee of Rudy’s Refreshment Stand west of town saw a plane circling over the lake, just before it plunged into the water. 
  
 A search for the missing plane began immediately by three Coast Guard cutters. In addition, C-45 trainers, C-47 transports and B-25 bombers combed the crash area for two days. When no wreckage was found, the search was called off. 
  
 During the past three years, Kennard and his exploration team have focused search efforts on locating historic shipwrecks in Lake Ontario off Oswego. Last season they reported several significant discoveries, which included the oldest confirmed schooner Atlas, lost in 1939; the schooner Ocean Wave, lost in 1890; and the Roberval, one of only two steel steamers lost in Lake Ontario. 
  
 “In addition, several aircraft have been on our watch list, including a B-24 lost in the lake in 1944, a C-47 lost near Sandy Point in 1944 and the C-45 near Oswego,” Kennard said. “We were quite surprised when the image of an aircraft appeared on our sonar display, as it was well beyond the mile offshore reported by a few eyewitnesses.” 
  
 The explorers obtained detailed images of the wreck of the C-45 by utilizing high resolution DeepVision side scan sonar. The sonar search was followed up by deploying a remote operated vehicle to collect video of the wreck site. 
  
 “We were amazed to see the C-45 is almost totally intact,” Kennard said. “The fiberglass nose cone is missing, as are the vertical stabilizers. One of the blades of the left propeller broke off and lies nearby on the bottom. Part of the windshield was broken and the left side of the body behind the wing has been torn away. Otherwise it is all there.” 
  
 That probably explains why no debris could be found floating on the surface of the water during the searches conducted by the Coast Guard and Air Force, Kennard said. 
  
 For exploration team member and retired Air Force Reserve pilot Lt. Col. Pawlowski, it was a special discovery, Kennard said. As a young boy of 9 in Tonawanda, his first ride was in a B-18, the commercial version of the C-45. 
  
 In 1980, while flying a practice mission over Lake Ontario, he witnessed a small aircraft plunge into the lake off Lyndonville. His details of the incident and location helped Kennard locate the aircraft, which was several miles from shore and in more than 100 feet of water. 
  
 All three explorers will be the guests at the Oak Orchard Lighthouse dinner Aug. 22, where they will have original shipwreck watercolor paintings on display, the Remote Operated Vehicle demonstration and an all-new deep shipwrecks presentation from off the Oak Orchard area. |||||
A: 
A trio of explorers on the hunt for sunken ships managed to solve a six-decade-old mystery—involving a plane. The group uncovered a US Air Force C-45 plane that crashed in the east end of Lake Ontario on its way to Griffiss Air Force Base near Rome, New York, on Sept. 11, 1952. As the Democrat and Chronicle and Rome Sentinel report, the plane's left engine began to fail; the five aboard decided to parachute out, with the pilot first putting the plane on autopilot in an attempt to crash it away from residential areas. But the plane, having lost nearly 1,000 pounds, gained altitude and took a slightly different course until its fuel ran out roughly 70 minutes later. At around 11pm the plane was seen flying low near Oswego, with witnesses saying "a powerful light, like that of a searchlight, appeared for several seconds after the crash." A Coast Guard search began right away and was stopped two days later, without success. Enter Jim Kennard, Roger Pawlowski, and Roland Stevens, who have been scouring the Oswego end of Lake Ontario for ships for three years and found the plane "well beyond the mile offshore reported by a few eyewitnesses," notes Kennard. He tells the Daily News the 34-foot-long plane doesn’t look too bad—sonar images show it's missing its nose cone, a blade, and part of its body behind the left wing, and a windshield is broken. (Another discovery was recently made at the bottom of a Great Lake.)