ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 152537
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| Date: | Sunday 29 November 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Grumman J2F Duck |
| Owner/operator: | US Coast Guard |
| Registration: | V1640 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Near Koge Bay -
 Greenland
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | CGC Northland |
In heavy fog, the aircraft impacted a glacier, killing all three aboard.
The plane was carrying Lt. John Pritchard, Petty Officer First Class Benjamin Bottoms, both of the Coast Guard, and Cpl. Loren Howarth, of the Air Force.
All three occupants died.
Pritchard, the pilot, and Petty Officer Bottoms, the radio operator, were returning from the crash site of an Army Air Force B-17, where they picked up Corporal Howarth, the B-17’s radio operator. The Coast Guard said the men were trying to reach the Northland, a cutter in Comanche Bay, Greenland, when they encountered whiteout conditions and crashed. An Army air crew spotted the Duck’s wreckage a week later and said it saw no signs of life.
Although several teams have been searching the area for the wreckage, the aircraft has yet to be located in the glacier as of the August 2022.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/us/world-war-ii-plane-that-crashed-in-greenland-in-1942-is-found.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
http://www.check-six.com/lib/Coast_Guard_Aviation_Casualties.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jan-2013 03:38 | gerard57 | Added |
| 15-Jan-2013 03:38 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 15-Jan-2013 03:47 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator] |
| 25-Sep-2021 16:16 | Cobar | Updated [Registration, Operator, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Aug-2022 16:15 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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