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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.
Led by entrepreneurs Ken McBride and Jim Salazar, the group of a dozen Canadian and American explorers who have been working on the project since 2010 will attempt to extract the P-38 Echo, piloted by Capt. Robert Wilson and the second plane of the squadron to attempt landing, and donate it to a museum. Wilson's P-38 was the first to land ...
Lost Squadron may refer to: The Lost Squadron, 1932 American action film; Flight 19, five United States Navy aircraft that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle in 1945
A Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow, 42-39445, c/n 964 [4] of the 550th Fighter Squadron, based at Hollandia, New Guinea, on a supposed proficiency flight (the pilot took three passengers, including a 20-year-old WAAC nurse), landed (largely intact) at the 5,000-foot (1,500 m) level of the Cyclops Mountains, a few miles from its airfield. All ...
The basic tactical and administrative unit of United States Marine Corps Aviation is the squadron. Fixed-wing aircraft squadrons (heavier than air) are denoted by the letter "V," which comes from the French verb "Voler" (to fly).
Four crew and four passengers were lost on this passenger flight. Wreckage washed up on the Iranian coast at Ras al Kuh, 40 km (25 miles) east of Jask. November 27, 1940: SNCAC NC.223.4 (F-AROA) 7: Shot down (possibly) North Atlantic Ocean (Mediterranean Sea off Teluada, Sardinia) Lost during Marseille-Bizerte-Beirut-Damascus mail flight.
Richard Virgil Grace (October 1, 1898 – June 25, 1965), known as Dick Grace, was an American stunt pilot who specialized in crashing planes for films.Films that he appeared in include Sky Bride, The Lost Squadron, Lilac Time, and the first Best Picture Oscar winner Wings.
Marine Fighting Squadron 422 (VMF-422) was a Vought F4U Corsair squadron in the United States Marine Corps.The squadron, also known as the "Flying Buccaneers", fought in World War II but is perhaps best known for its role in the worst accident in naval aviation history when 22 of the squadron's 23 aircraft were lost flying through a typhoon on 25 January 1944.