C-130 FLIES OVER GRAVE OF AIRMAN

ADVANCE - The fly-over of a lone Air National Guard C-130 transport plane highlighted a military grave-side ceremony held Thursday for one of the airmen killed in the Feb. 6 crash of a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130 in Evansville, Ind.

The airman, Capt. Warren J. Klingaman, was piloting the C-130 aircraft when it crashed into the Drury Inn and JoJo's restaurant a short distance from the Evansville Municipal Airport.

Klingaman's wife, the former Susan Hahn, is from Advance.

Following funeral service in Advance, the grave-side ceremony was held in Green Cox Cemetery near Advance.

As an Air Force color guard from Scott Air Force Base, Ill., stood by, the C-130, assigned to the 179th Tactical Airlift Group, Ohio Air National Guard at Mansfield, flew over the cemetery in a final salute to the dead airman.

The C-130 flew into the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport Thursday morning with Air Force and Air National Guard personnel from Louisville who attended the funeral service in Advance. All were close friends of Klingaman and fellow airmen.

Klingaman was assigned to the 123rd Tactical Airlift Wing (TAW) of the Kentucky Air National Guard at Louisville.

Lt. Col. Mike Winslow, the pilot of the C-130 that made the fly-over, said the 123rd TAW is a "sister" unit of the 179th Tactical Airlift Group of the Ohio Air National Guard at Mansfield.

Winslow said he knew Capt. Klingaman and the other airmen who died in the crash.

The airplane left Cape Girardeau Thursday afternoon for the return flight to Louisville.