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B-24E-25-CF (as built), 41-29075, c/n 67, flown by Howard R. Cosgrove, crashes and burns, killing all seven on board, while B-24E-25-FO (as built), 42-7420, c/n 444, [26] piloted by Carlos N. Clayton, [213] [182] makes a crash landing in a swamp, none of the eight crew suffering serious injury despite the aircraft being virtually demolished.
Ref The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, CEMML, Colorado State University- Chapter 4.0 Cold Weather Test – p. 22; "One of the B-17s was lost in a February crash that took the lives of the eight men on board. They had been en route to Wright Field via Sacramento, carrying records and reports of the station.
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Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, United States, while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962. The aircraft crashed in a clover field near Unionville, in Putnam County, Missouri, killing all 45 ...
Six people on board the B-17 and Kingcobra were killed in the fiery crash, according to the Dallas County medical examiner. Two were former American Airlines employees from Tarrant County.
After the loss of the Flagship Ohio, the Flagship Missouri covered Flight 63. The Flagship Missouri was a DC-3 built by the Douglas Aircraft Company for American Airlines. It had been in service for seven years, since 1936, and had logged a total of 17,774 hours of flight time at the time of the crash. [1]
As the plane approached the field, it suddenly lost altitude and crashed into a hillside on the Herzog ranch, 3 miles (4.8 km) NW of Hamilton field. [5] 7 June 1942 Maj. Gen. Clarence Tinker became the first U.S. general to die during World War II when his plane crashed during the Battle of Midway.
At the time of the crash, the plane was taking six people on a skydiving mission shortly before 1 p.m. Saturday. During the jump, one of the parachutes deployed over the tail, damaging the ...