ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 107031
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| Date: | Saturday 3 July 1943 |
| Time: | 12:30 HRS |
| Type: |  Lockheed F-5A Lightning |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force (USAAF) |
| Registration: | 42-13306 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROBERTS FIELD, OFF LIBERIAN COAST, AFRICA -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| ROB |
Aircraft was one of three in formation, four hours out from Ascension Island enroute to Roberts Field, Liberia. Aircraft entered a rain squall, low visibility, ceiling 1,000 feet. Aircraft lost at sea, crashed. No radio contact with pilot. A PBY later returned to the area where aircraft last seen. Oil slick, nose wheel and papers were seen floating on waters surface. Pilot, F/O Clovic C. Newman was never recovered.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp
Missing Air Crew Report M-1380 Fiche-146
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