ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 213961
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Date: | Monday 23 December 1940 |
Time: | morning |
Type: | Douglas SBD-1 Dauntless |
Owner/operator: | United States Marine Corps (USMC) |
Registration: | 1607 |
MSN: | 560 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Inferno Mt., near San Louis, Oriente -
Cuba
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | La Habana/Rancho Boyeros |
Destination airport: | BAN Guantanamo (Caimanera) |
Narrative:Hit a tree in bad weather and crashed.
Sources:
Noticias de hoy 26 December 1940, p6
http://www.accident-report.com/USN/aircraft.html https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1940-12-25/ed-1/seq-10/#date1=12%2F23%2F1940&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Nicholson&proxdistance=5&date2=12%2F26%2F1940&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=Nicholson&dateFilterType=range&page=1 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Aug-2018 14:42 |
TB |
Added |
03-Aug-2018 21:21 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
12-Sep-2021 18:54 |
Cobar |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Source] |
13-Nov-2022 17:24 |
Cobar |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
23-May-2023 10:55 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative]] |
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