ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 34530
Last updated: 12 December 2013
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| Date: | 17-DEC-1945 |
| Time: | 1235 LT |
| Type: | Lockheed P-38L Lightning |
| Owner/operator: | 444 Base Unit, USAAF |
| Registration: | 44-24492 |
| C/n / msn: | 422-5496 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Langford Lake, 25 miles NNE Daggett AAF, CA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Daggett AAF |
| Daggett AAF |
1st Lieutenant Kenneth R. Frost, an instructor, was leading a flight of four P-38 Lightnings in a rocket firing exercise on the Langford Lake Rocket Range.
He made a dummy run at the target on the dry lake bed and was warned by radio from the ground that his pull out from the dive was too low.
He made a second run, and on the pull out his aircraft stalled at high speed. Its left wing tip struck the desert causing the P-38 to cartwheel and disintegrate in flames.
1st Lieutenant Frost died in the crash.
Unit: 318 Wing, 444th Base Unit.
Sources:
www.aviationarcheology.com/P38tdy.htm
- JF Baugher
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Oct-2008 06:25 | angels one five | Added |
| 07-Jan-2012 03:42 | Uli Elch | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Nov-2012 16:51 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Nov-2013 12:19 | Uli Elch | Updated [Location] |
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