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Date: | Friday 23 October 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | Chance Vought F7U-1 Cutlass |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy (USN) |
Registration: | 124419 |
MSN: | 5 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | NAS Norfolk, VA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | NAS Patuxent River, MD/NATC |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed on landing due to mechanical failure. Pilot John Starr Hill.
Sources:
AAIR (KLACMF) - AAIR says pilot killed, but John Starr Hill was not killed in this incident and died in 1978. Either pilot name is incorrect or incident report is incorrect.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
10 June 1952 |
128455 |
United States Navy (USN) |
1 |
NAS Dallas, TX |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Aug-2022 19:07 |
TB |
Added |
29-Jan-2024 12:39 |
Anon. |
Updated [Source] |