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Date: | Saturday 11 February 1939 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed XP-38 Lightning |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) |
Registration: | 37-457 |
MSN: | 022-2201 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Cold Stream Golf Course, Hempstead, NY -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Wright Field, OH |
Destination airport: | Mitchel Field, NY |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:Forced landing due to carburetor icing and crashed. Was on a record breaking cross country flight.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/12/archives/secret-army-plane-wrecked-as-it-ends-nearrecord-hop-wrecked-army.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Nov-2016 13:39 |
A.J. Scholten |
Updated [Cn] |
11-Sep-2021 17:45 |
Cobar |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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