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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.
The aircraft was one of two carrying a delegation from the House of Commons to visit British forces in Italy; two members of Parliament, Robert Bernays and John Dermot Campbell, were killed. The plane was not found, and an investigation concluded that the pilot had attempted to push on through a heavy snowstorm rather than change course. [8] 30 ...
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
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.
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)
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
He was declared dead in 1950 with a death date of 8 May 1945. [119] 6 March 1943 Hans Beißwenger: 26 Staraya Russa, Russian SFSR Beißwenger, a German Luftwaffe fighter ace, was reported missing in action following an air battle close to Lake Ilmen in Staraya Russia on 6 March 1943. [120] 16 July 1943 Günther Scheel: 21 Bolkhov, Russian SFSR ...
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 ...