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Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Disappeared together with navigator Fred Noonan during global circumnavigation attempt, cause undetermined, body and aircraft never found; see speculation on Earhart's disappearance: Beverly Eckert: United States 2009 Activist, co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee Colgan Air Flight 3407 [39] Clarence Center, New York: Icing; pilot error
High-ranking Nazi Party official Hilgenfeldt is thought to have committed suicide to avoid capture by the Allies, but his body was never found. [169] 1 May 1945 Santi Quasimodo: 58 Brescia, Italy An Italian Blackshirt general during World War II, Quasimodo disappeared in the Brescia area on 1 May 1945. His body was never found. [170] 1 May 1945
They were declared dead on 4 October; the wreckage and their bodies were found on 19 November 1948. [188] 3 October Captured Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 V14, the first helicopter to fly across the English Channel on 6 September 1945 when it was moved from Cherbourg to RAF Beaulieu, crashed on its third test flight at RAF Beaulieu when a driveshaft ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1945 (68 P) Pages in category "1945 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 5,298 total.
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia.. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeof
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1945–1949)
U.S. Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat, BuNo 66237, c/n A-1257, 'Z 11', suffers engine failure on functional check flight out of Naval Air Station San Diego, North Island, California, pilot Ens. Robert F. Thomas ditches in the Pacific Ocean ~12 miles (19 km) from the base, gets clear of sinking airframe and survives to become an ace in the Pacific ...