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Date: | Monday 1 June 1953 |
Time: | 15:30 |
Type: | Grumman XF8F-1N Bearcat |
Owner/operator: | NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory |
Registration: | 94819 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | San Francisco Bay, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Test |
Departure airport: | NAS Moffett Field, CA |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed into the San Francisco Bay narrowly missing a Coast Guard B-17 flying above the water. Pilot Rudolph E. Van Dyke (35).
Sources:
Daily News (Los Angeles) 2 June 1953, p2
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