ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 152569
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Date: | Friday 14 January 1949 |
Time: | |
Type: | North American P-51 Mustang |
Owner/operator: | 95th (F) Sqn USAF |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | New Boston Bombing Range -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Grenier Field in Manchester, New Hampshire. |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On Jan. 14, 1949, the plane was on a training dive-bomb mission, when the left flipper door of his P-51 Mustang came open and was ripped off, closely followed by the entire wing. The pilot was killed on impact as the plane crashed into a hillside just south of the target.
Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130216222000/http://www.schriever.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123332730 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
16-Jan-2013 13:18 |
gerard57 |
Added |
15-Jun-2013 06:57 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator] |
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