Date: | Tuesday 11 February 1969 |
Time: | 20:23 |
Type: | Lockheed SP-2E Neptune |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 131487 |
MSN: | 426-5368 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 11 km SE of Santa Ana-El Toro MCAS, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Santa Ana-El Toro MCAS, CA (NZJ/KNZJ) |
Destination airport: | Santa Ana-El Toro MCAS, CA (NZJ/KNZJ) |
Narrative:The Neptune operated on a night time training flight, conducting practice landings at Santa Ana-El Toro MCAS, California.
During a missed approach the right wingtip struck the southern ridge of Harding Canyon in the Santa Ana Mountains. The aircraft cartwheeled and disintegrated.
Sources:
aircraftwrecks.com L'Unitá 13-2-1969
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher Revision history:
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