Accident Grumman F9F-6 Cougar 127428,
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Date:Saturday 25 July 1953
Time:night
Type:Grumman F9F-6 Cougar
Owner/operator:United States Navy (USN)
Registration: 127428
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:S. Happy Jack, AZ -   United States of America
Phase:
Nature:Military
Departure airport:NAS Miramar, CA/VF-143
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Crashed in rugget Mongollon Rim County. Lt (jg) Winton D. Horn (33) parachuted into woods and located next morning. He suffered serious back injury when he landed in a tree and died 2 AUG.

Sources:

Prescott Evening Courier 27 July 1953, p1/4 August 1953, p1
AAIR (KSSP)

Revision history:

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