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Date: | Saturday 2 June 1962 |
Time: | 16:30 |
Type: | Beechcraft T-34B Mentor |
Owner/operator: | U.S. Forest Service |
Registration: | N145Z |
MSN: | BG-175 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | nr Hillsboro Peak, NM -
United States of America
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Fire fighting |
Departure airport: | Silver City/Grant County Airport, NM |
Destination airport: | Silver City/Grant County Airport, NM |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Impacted a wooded mountainside while acting as a bird dog plane in a forest fire.
Both occupants survived. Volunteer smokejumpers assisted the pilot and the passenger, a reporter for the El Paso (Texas) Times newspaper. The two victims were airlifted to hospital by helicopter the next morning; both men fully recovered.
Sources:
http://www.ephemeraltreasures.net/crash-part-1.html ex.US Navy/Bu140841.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jul-2015 17:58 |
harro |
Added |
28-Nov-2019 09:24 |
Bob |
Updated [Date, Time, Narrative] |
06-Feb-2022 15:54 |
A.J.Scholten |
Updated [Cn, Source] |
01-May-2022 08:22 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Operator] |
12-Nov-2022 01:32 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Operator] |
29-May-2023 21:52 |
Ron Averes |
Updated |
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