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Date: | Tuesday 10 September 2002 |
Time: | c. 21:30 |
Type: | Lockheed S-3B Viking |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy (USN) |
Registration: | 159402 |
MSN: | 3038 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | off Puerto Rico -
Puerto Rico
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed in sea on refuelling mission. It appears that the crew lost situational awareness during the night-time exercise and dived steeply into the ocean.
Sources:
Scramble 283
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/091102/new_navyplane.html AFM AUG 2003
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jan-2009 11:55 |
ASN archive |
Added |
14-Sep-2011 04:50 |
Anon. |
Updated [Location] |
14-Sep-2011 06:13 |
Anon. |
Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
26-Jan-2020 20:05 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
04-Jan-2021 18:18 |
TB |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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