- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: January 12, 1962
Time: ?
Location: Kronborg Glacier, Greenland
Operator: Military - US Navy
Flight #: ?
Route: Keflavik - Keflavik
AC Type: Lockheed P2V Neptune
Registration: 131521
cn / ln: 426-5402
Aboard: 12   (passengers:0  crew:12)
Fatalities: 12   (passengers:0  crew:12)
Ground: 0
Summary: Crashed during a routine reconnaissance mission looking for Russian submarines. The place where the plane had crashed was finally discovered in 1966 when four geologists found the remains, but it was not until 2004 that the US Navy recovered all the crew remains and memorialized the deceased at the crash site.
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