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Date: | Wednesday 31 July 1974 |
Time: | |
Type: | Grumman TE-2A Hawkeye |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy (USN) |
Registration: | 150530 |
MSN: | 10 GE 725 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | USCG Airport Elizabeth City, NC -
United States of America
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | USCG Elizabeth City, NC |
Destination airport: | USCG Elizabeth City, NC |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed while practicing touch-and-go due to failure of port engine's auto-feather system and struck a maintenance building setting off a fire in an upholstery and fiberglass shop. Lt. Cmdr student pilot killed as well as 3 on the ground. More than a dozen others injured.
Sources:
Stars & Stripes - Aug 2, 1976 page 6
Wikipedia - List of accidents and incidents involving military aircrraft (1960-74)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Sep-2017 10:32 |
Rodger Asai |
Added |
28-Dec-2019 11:59 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
11-Feb-2020 20:30 |
Iwosh |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
30-Jan-2022 16:16 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport] |