Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 04 JUL 1966 |
| Type: | Lockheed P-3A-60-LO Orion |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 152172 |
| C/n / msn: | 185-5142 |
| First flight: | 1965 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Battle Creek, MI (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NJ (NOP), United States of America |
| Chicago (unknown airport), IL, United States of America |
Crashed in a wooded area. The P-3 was on a flight from New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NJ (NOP) to Moffett Field NAS, CA (NUQ).
Sources:
» P-3 Orion Aircraft Location Report (P-3 Orion Research Group - The Netherlands)
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
» US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
» VPNavy.org
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
