- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | August 27, 1967 |
Time: | 1602 |
Location: | Lake Erie off Huron, Ohio |
Operator: | Private |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Wakeman - Wakeman, Ohio |
AC Type: | North American B-25 Mitchell |
Registration: | N3443G |
cn / ln: | 108-33745 |
Aboard: | 22 (passengers:20 crew:2) |
Fatalities: | 16 (passengers:16 crew:0) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | All the passengers were experienced parachutists who had accepted an invitation to try a high-altitude jump.The plan was for 18 to parachute from 20,000 ft. and 2 from 30,000 ft.,,over Ortner Airport in Wakeman. The jump was to be photographed from a Cessna 180. The B-25 flew over solid clouds but the pilot did not cancel the jumps. Cleveland ATC Center confused the two planes and gave the B-25 the wrong position. The first 18 parachutists all landed in Lake Erie, only two of them surviving. |
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