- 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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