- | 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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