Date:	Sunday 3 December 1967
Time:
Type:	Lockheed P-2H Neptune
Owner/operator:	United States Navy
Registration:	148350
MSN:	726-7235
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 12
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	0,8 km from Falmouth-Otis AFB, MA (FMH) -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Brunswick NAS, ME (NHZ/KNHZ)
Destination airport:	Brunswick NAS, ME (NHZ/KNHZ)

Narrative:
The aircraft departed the Brunswick Naval Air Station for a routine patrol flight. At some point the aircraft developed mechanical problems and received clearance to land at Otis Air Force Base. As the aircraft was making its final approach it crashed a half-mile short of the runway. All twelve men aboard escaped; four of them suffered minor injuries.

US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
Nashua Telegraph, "Plane Crash At Otis base", December 4, 1967

photo (c) U.S. Navy; near Falmouth-Otis AFB, MA (FMH); December 1967

photo (c) U.S. Navy; near Falmouth-Otis AFB, MA (FMH); December 1967

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